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Lead Software Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Computer Systems Analyst category, covering architecture, technical leadership, and full-stack development work. Canadian citizens can apply at the port of entry with no cap. Mexican citizens require a consular visa appointment. A relevant bachelor's degree and a detailed employer offer letter are required.
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Broadcom is a leading global company in infrastructure technology, data center networking, and security, with over years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. The company's origins can be traced back to the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent. Broadcom focuses on developing technologies that connect our world. With its extensive size, scope, and engineering talent, the company is well-positioned to lead the industry into the future. This is achieved through the combined capabilities of industry leaders such as Broadcom, LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and VMware.
ANSBU is a leader in distributed and gateway security. vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP stops lateral movement with customizable network segmentation policies. Diagnose threats early with vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention and gain complete visibility into all traffic. VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention protects private cloud workloads from advanced attacks and ransomware with a high-fidelity multi-layer defense. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical lead - Staff Software Quality Engineer. We are working from office culture. The position is located in Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Job Description
The team is responsible for delivering the highest-quality Security products. We seek a technology lead Software Quality Engineer to develop a test strategy and a test plan to automate the tests and release the product to the customer. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. This involves anticipating and addressing customer problems before they occur by creating thorough end-to-end test cases. We use advanced automation to set up test environments and run test cases. Our expertise covers testing various advanced security solutions for functionality, system, scale, and performance. In this role, the candidate will develop Python code into a sophisticated framework and develop tests, utilities, and tools. You’ll oversee the end-to-end portfolio of features for vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP on an aggressive timeline.
Job Responsibilities
- Using an advanced testing strategy, create a comprehensive test plan addressing various aspects, including functional, system, scalability, performance, longevity, and churn. Formulate intricate test cases based on a distributed scale topology.
- Initiate the QE lifecycle by crafting a test plan, conducting tests, automating them, maintaining integration in CI/CD, identifying defects, reporting issues, and launching the feature within tight deadlines.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust tests using Python in the Pytest.
- Develop high-quality complex Python tests on a distributed system on a scale and in a private cloud.
- Be a strong advocate of Software Quality & regular follow-up with Developers to get defects in a resolved fix state.
- Coordinate with the test team and across the development, product management, SRE, and systems engineers to ensure a feature is tested from the functional, scale, system, and performance perspectives.
- Design complex distributed architectures, influence a peer group to adopt them, and then work with management to implement them.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in software testing, coding, defects, code review, and automation.
- Document architectures, procedures, and processes and contribute to improving the process.
Required skillsets
- Minimum 6 years of strong background in networking or security or cloud-based technologies.
- Minimum 6 years of strong programming skills in Python, YAML, Bash, and object-oriented programming.
- Minimum 4 Years of Virtualization experience in Installation, Configuration & Administration is required. Good understanding of IO subsystems and virtualization. (vSphere)
- Extensive knowledge and practical experience in firewall and security services, as well as in the networking TCP/IP stack, L2/L3, and WAN.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to debug complex systems, and networking troubleshooting and debugging expertise.
- Working knowledge of REST APIs.
- Familiarity with Traffic simulator tools like Ixia Cyperf, TRex, and Iperf is preferred.
- Networking troubleshooting and debugging using tcpdump, Wireshark, traceroute, and route netstat.
- It's a bonus if you are familiar with virtualization, containerization, or cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience or Master's degree in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent and 6+ years of related experience.
Why Join Us?
- Work on cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Collaborate with a talented and passionate team.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
Compensation and Benefits
The annual base salary range for this position is USD 121,900.00 To USD 195,000.00
As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. All subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements.
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.
About us
Broadcom is a leading global company in infrastructure technology, data center networking, and security, with over years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. The company's origins can be traced back to the technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent. Broadcom focuses on developing technologies that connect our world. With its extensive size, scope, and engineering talent, the company is well-positioned to lead the industry into the future. This is achieved through the combined capabilities of industry leaders such as Broadcom, LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise security business, and VMware.
ANSBU is a leader in distributed and gateway security. vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP stops lateral movement with customizable network segmentation policies. Diagnose threats early with vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention and gain complete visibility into all traffic. VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention protects private cloud workloads from advanced attacks and ransomware with a high-fidelity multi-layer defense. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical lead - Staff Software Quality Engineer. We are working from office culture. The position is located in Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Job Description
The team is responsible for delivering the highest-quality Security products. We seek a technology lead Software Quality Engineer to develop a test strategy and a test plan to automate the tests and release the product to the customer. Join our close-knit, fast-paced team that operates in an agile environment to solve critical challenges for our internal and external customers. This involves anticipating and addressing customer problems before they occur by creating thorough end-to-end test cases. We use advanced automation to set up test environments and run test cases. Our expertise covers testing various advanced security solutions for functionality, system, scale, and performance. In this role, the candidate will develop Python code into a sophisticated framework and develop tests, utilities, and tools. You’ll oversee the end-to-end portfolio of features for vDefend Distributed Firewall and ATP on an aggressive timeline.
Job Responsibilities
- Using an advanced testing strategy, create a comprehensive test plan addressing various aspects, including functional, system, scalability, performance, longevity, and churn. Formulate intricate test cases based on a distributed scale topology.
- Initiate the QE lifecycle by crafting a test plan, conducting tests, automating them, maintaining integration in CI/CD, identifying defects, reporting issues, and launching the feature within tight deadlines.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust tests using Python in the Pytest.
- Develop high-quality complex Python tests on a distributed system on a scale and in a private cloud.
- Be a strong advocate of Software Quality & regular follow-up with Developers to get defects in a resolved fix state.
- Coordinate with the test team and across the development, product management, SRE, and systems engineers to ensure a feature is tested from the functional, scale, system, and performance perspectives.
- Design complex distributed architectures, influence a peer group to adopt them, and then work with management to implement them.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in software testing, coding, defects, code review, and automation.
- Document architectures, procedures, and processes and contribute to improving the process.
Required skillsets
- Minimum 6 years of strong background in networking or security or cloud-based technologies.
- Minimum 6 years of strong programming skills in Python, YAML, Bash, and object-oriented programming.
- Minimum 4 Years of Virtualization experience in Installation, Configuration & Administration is required. Good understanding of IO subsystems and virtualization. (vSphere)
- Extensive knowledge and practical experience in firewall and security services, as well as in the networking TCP/IP stack, L2/L3, and WAN.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to debug complex systems, and networking troubleshooting and debugging expertise.
- Working knowledge of REST APIs.
- Familiarity with Traffic simulator tools like Ixia Cyperf, TRex, and Iperf is preferred.
- Networking troubleshooting and debugging using tcpdump, Wireshark, traceroute, and route netstat.
- It's a bonus if you are familiar with virtualization, containerization, or cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience or Master's degree in Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent and 6+ years of related experience.
Why Join Us?
- Work on cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Collaborate with a talented and passionate team.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
Compensation and Benefits
The annual base salary range for this position is USD 121,900.00 To USD 195,000.00
As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. All subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements.
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.
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Frame your offer letter for TN scrutiny
The offer letter must describe your Lead Software Engineer duties in terms that map to the Computer Systems Analyst USMCA category. Vague titles like 'tech lead' without systems analysis language are a common reason CBP officers ask clarifying questions.
Audit your degree before applying
TN visa requires a degree in a directly related field. A computer science or software engineering degree is straightforward, but a degree in business or physics needs supporting documentation showing its relevance to lead-level software systems work.
Target employers with recent visa filing experience
Employers with recent visa filings for software roles already understand visa sponsorship mechanics. You can identify companies experienced with work visa sponsorship by researching their recent H-1B visa or green card filings before you apply. These employers have demonstrated familiarity with the visa sponsorship process, which suggests they may be open to supporting TN candidates. For TN sponsorship, your employer simply needs to prepare a support letter documenting your qualifications and role details—no government filing required—then you present it at the U.S. port of entry (for Canadians) or apply at a U.S. consulate (for Mexicans).
Search verified TN job postings through Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters Lead Software Engineer roles by employers actively offering TN visa sponsorship, so you're not cold-applying to companies that will reject you at the offer stage once they learn you need status support.
Prepare for Canadian port-of-entry review
Canadian citizens adjudicate TN status at the border in a single visit, with no USCIS filing. Bring your degree, a certified offer letter, and any supporting credentials. CBP officers make the decision on the spot, so completeness matters more than speed.
Negotiate TN filing costs into your offer
Unlike H-1B, there's no statutory prohibition on the employee paying TN costs, but many employers with existing immigration programs will cover them. Raise this during offer negotiation before signing, not after, when it becomes harder to revisit.
Lead Software Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead Software Engineer role qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, if the role is framed correctly. The USMCA doesn't list 'software engineer' as a standalone category, but Lead Software Engineer work typically qualifies under Computer Systems Analyst when the duties include systems design, architecture, and technical analysis. The offer letter must reflect that language clearly, not just a management or coding description.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Lead Software Engineer positions?
TN has no lottery, no annual cap for Canadians, and can be processed at the border the same day. H-1B requires a March registration lottery, a multi-month USCIS review, and a start date of October 1 at the earliest. For Canadian professionals already in the job market, TN is faster and more predictable. Mexican nationals face a consular appointment step, but still avoid the lottery.
What does an employer need to provide for TN sponsorship?
The employer must issue a detailed offer letter on company letterhead stating your job title, a description of duties aligned to the Computer Systems Analyst USMCA category, the duration of employment, and your qualifications. Unlike H-1B, the employer doesn't file anything with USCIS for Canadian nationals. For Mexican nationals, the employer provides the same letter for your consular appointment.
How can I find Lead Software Engineer jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Most job postings don't specify which visa types they'll support, which means you'll spend time applying to employers who won't sponsor. Migrate Mate lets you search Lead Software Engineer roles specifically filtered for TN visa sponsorship, so you can focus on employers who have already confirmed they'll support the process.
Can I switch employers while on TN status as a Lead Software Engineer?
Yes, but your TN status is tied to your current employer. Before you start with a new company, you'll need a new TN approval, either at a port of entry (for Canadians) or through a consular appointment (for Mexicans). You cannot begin work for the new employer until the new TN is approved, so time your transition carefully.