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California is the largest market for frontend engineer visa sponsorship in the U.S., driven by major tech employers across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Companies like Google, Meta, Apple, Salesforce, and hundreds of Series B-plus startups regularly sponsor H-1B visa and other work visas for frontend roles requiring JavaScript, React, and modern web stack expertise.
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Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
Responsibilities
As an important contributor to the Enterprise Agility team, you will simplify Agile Software development at scale by bringing business and software development organizations together in one intuitive platform. Our flagship product in the enterprise agile planning market is Jira Align, and we are doubling down on our investment.
In your role as Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the development team to bring to life a new initiative from scratch to connect strategy to execution at scale by using the Atlassian platform, open toolchain principles, and philosophy of aligned autonomy for teams.
You will be part of an efficient team empowered to achieve their goals. We are looking for engineers who excel in dynamic environments and embrace. As a remote-first company, you will work with a distributed team.
- Responsible for design and development while collaborating with others to ensure the impact is achieved.
- Improve operational quality of features built by enterprise agility team, security, reliability, and performance.
- Consider the customer and business impact of decisions and make appropriate tradeoffs.
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable asking questions, looking for help, and sharing their perspectives.
- Oversee the daily operations of the systems you build.
COMPENSATION
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Pay Ranges:
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233
QUALIFICATIONS
Your background
- Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software.
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications using React.
- Bachelor’s degree with a preference for Computer Science degree.
- Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing and releasing.
- Success with mentoring more junior Engineers - Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
- Experience with micro-service architectures and are comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, SQS, S3).
- You have experience building integrations and data synchronizations with event pub/sub models.
LI-Remote
BENEFITS & PERKS
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
ABOUT ATLASSIAN
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
INTRODUCTION
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
Responsibilities
As an important contributor to the Enterprise Agility team, you will simplify Agile Software development at scale by bringing business and software development organizations together in one intuitive platform. Our flagship product in the enterprise agile planning market is Jira Align, and we are doubling down on our investment.
In your role as Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the development team to bring to life a new initiative from scratch to connect strategy to execution at scale by using the Atlassian platform, open toolchain principles, and philosophy of aligned autonomy for teams.
You will be part of an efficient team empowered to achieve their goals. We are looking for engineers who excel in dynamic environments and embrace. As a remote-first company, you will work with a distributed team.
- Responsible for design and development while collaborating with others to ensure the impact is achieved.
- Improve operational quality of features built by enterprise agility team, security, reliability, and performance.
- Consider the customer and business impact of decisions and make appropriate tradeoffs.
- Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable asking questions, looking for help, and sharing their perspectives.
- Oversee the daily operations of the systems you build.
COMPENSATION
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Pay Ranges:
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398
Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233
QUALIFICATIONS
Your background
- Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software.
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications using React.
- Bachelor’s degree with a preference for Computer Science degree.
- Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing and releasing.
- Success with mentoring more junior Engineers - Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
- Experience with micro-service architectures and are comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, SQS, S3).
- You have experience building integrations and data synchronizations with event pub/sub models.
LI-Remote
BENEFITS & PERKS
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
ABOUT ATLASSIAN
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
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Which companies sponsor visas for frontend engineers in California?
Large tech employers including Google, Meta, Apple, Adobe, Salesforce, and Nvidia are among the most consistent H-1B sponsors for frontend engineers in California. Mid-size and growth-stage companies across the Bay Area and Los Angeles also sponsor regularly, particularly those backed by venture capital that need to compete globally for engineering talent. Sponsorship patterns can be verified through DOL Labor Condition Application disclosure data.
Which visa types are most common for frontend engineer roles in California?
The H-1B is by far the most common visa for frontend engineers in California, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Australians may qualify for the E-3 visa, Canadians and Mexicans for the TN visa under NAFTA/USMCA. F-1 graduates often work on OPT or STEM OPT before transitioning to H-1B sponsorship.
How to find frontend engineer visa sponsorship jobs in California?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship willingness, so you can browse frontend engineer roles in California without sorting through positions that won't consider international candidates. Because frontend is one of the most in-demand engineering disciplines in the state, the volume of sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate is particularly strong for California-based roles, including both large tech companies and funded startups.
Which cities in California have the most frontend engineer sponsorship jobs?
The San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco itself, accounts for the largest concentration of frontend engineer sponsorship jobs in California. Los Angeles has grown substantially, with a strong presence of media-tech, e-commerce, and entertainment technology companies. San Diego has an emerging tech sector with notable activity from defense tech and biotech-adjacent software companies.
Are there any California-specific considerations for frontend engineers seeking visa sponsorship?
California's strong employment protections and its concentration of well-funded employers mean many companies have established immigration programs and in-house or retained legal counsel for visa filings. Frontend engineers should be aware that California's high prevailing wage determinations, set by the Department of Labor, can affect how employers structure H-1B filings. STEM OPT extensions are common for F-1 graduates from California's major engineering programs at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCLA.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored frontend engineer jobs in California?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.