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California is one of the top states for cybersecurity H-1B sponsorship, driven by a dense concentration of tech companies, defense contractors, and financial institutions across Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Major employers including Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Google, and CrowdStrike have a strong track record of sponsoring H-1B visas for cybersecurity professionals.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.”
What if your ideas could ignite global innovation?
What if your curiosity could redefine the future?
We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500, and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career.
How we empower our people is extraordinary: we’re recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and honored by Cigna as a Healthy Workforce honors for three consecutive years; and what we build is world class: named CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — clear evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next.”
In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox.
We are looking for a Staff AIOps Engineer – Generative AI Platform to join our AI team. In this pivotal role, you will design, build, and operate the core GenAI platform capabilities that power product copilots, agentic workflows, and customer-facing AI services across the organization. You will partner closely with AI/ML engineers, platform teams, security, and product leaders to ensure our GenAI services are scalable, reliable, observable, and governed by design.
This role combines distributed systems engineering, SRE discipline, and AI platform expertise to ensure production-ready, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure.
Be a Contributor — What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and operate core GenAI platform services, including the multi-model access layer, MCP services, and customer-facing AI infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and policy enforcement
- Establish and evolve observability, tracing, and telemetry frameworks for GenAI systems across development and production environments
- Define and operationalize SLAs, SLOs, and automated CI/CD and lifecycle management processes for GenAI services, including model onboarding, rollout, routing configuration, and controlled deprecation
- Build and maintain guardrails, safety mechanisms, and governance controls to mitigate hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, and misuse across copilots and agentic workflows
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and systemic reliability improvements to strengthen platform stability and operational excellence
- Drive architectural standards and cross-team alignment, mentoring engineers and partnering with AI/ML, platform, security, and product teams to deliver secure, production-grade GenAI systems
Be Prepared — What You Bring
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments
- Strong experience designing and running highly available, scalable backend services in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and lifecycle management processes for distributed or AI-powered systems
- Proven experience defining and operating services against SLAs/SLOs, leading incident response, and driving structured post-incident improvements
- Experience building observability, tracing, and monitoring systems for complex distributed platforms
- Practical experience supporting AI/ML or Generative AI systems in production, including model access control, performance monitoring, governance, and safety enforcement
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including cross-team architectural influence, platform ownership, and mentorship in SaaS or large-scale distributed environments
- Bachelor's/Master's degree or a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
Be Successful — Your Path
First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (Blox Buddies), and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.
Six Months:
- Lead production enhancements to the GenAI gateway, lifecycle automation framework, and observability platform
- Establish measurable SLAs/SLOs and improve incident response processes for GenAI services
- Reduce operational risk through improved automation, monitoring, and policy enforcement
One Year:
- Own the reliability, scalability, and governance posture of core GenAI platform services adopted across multiple product lines
- Drive measurable improvements in uptime, latency consistency, cost efficiency, and safety compliance
- Be recognized as a technical authority in enterprise GenAI platform engineering and AIOps within the organization
Belong — Your Community
Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you’ll grow and belong here.
Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong
- Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
- Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
- Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
- Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
- Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
- We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $178,000 - $265,000 plus bonus
Ready to Be the Difference?
Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis
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At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.”
What if your ideas could ignite global innovation?
What if your curiosity could redefine the future?
We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500, and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career.
How we empower our people is extraordinary: we’re recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and honored by Cigna as a Healthy Workforce honors for three consecutive years; and what we build is world class: named CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — clear evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next.”
In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox.
We are looking for a Staff AIOps Engineer – Generative AI Platform to join our AI team. In this pivotal role, you will design, build, and operate the core GenAI platform capabilities that power product copilots, agentic workflows, and customer-facing AI services across the organization. You will partner closely with AI/ML engineers, platform teams, security, and product leaders to ensure our GenAI services are scalable, reliable, observable, and governed by design.
This role combines distributed systems engineering, SRE discipline, and AI platform expertise to ensure production-ready, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure.
Be a Contributor — What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and operate core GenAI platform services, including the multi-model access layer, MCP services, and customer-facing AI infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and policy enforcement
- Establish and evolve observability, tracing, and telemetry frameworks for GenAI systems across development and production environments
- Define and operationalize SLAs, SLOs, and automated CI/CD and lifecycle management processes for GenAI services, including model onboarding, rollout, routing configuration, and controlled deprecation
- Build and maintain guardrails, safety mechanisms, and governance controls to mitigate hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, and misuse across copilots and agentic workflows
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and systemic reliability improvements to strengthen platform stability and operational excellence
- Drive architectural standards and cross-team alignment, mentoring engineers and partnering with AI/ML, platform, security, and product teams to deliver secure, production-grade GenAI systems
Be Prepared — What You Bring
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments
- Strong experience designing and running highly available, scalable backend services in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and lifecycle management processes for distributed or AI-powered systems
- Proven experience defining and operating services against SLAs/SLOs, leading incident response, and driving structured post-incident improvements
- Experience building observability, tracing, and monitoring systems for complex distributed platforms
- Practical experience supporting AI/ML or Generative AI systems in production, including model access control, performance monitoring, governance, and safety enforcement
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including cross-team architectural influence, platform ownership, and mentorship in SaaS or large-scale distributed environments
- Bachelor's/Master's degree or a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
Be Successful — Your Path
First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (Blox Buddies), and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.
Six Months:
- Lead production enhancements to the GenAI gateway, lifecycle automation framework, and observability platform
- Establish measurable SLAs/SLOs and improve incident response processes for GenAI services
- Reduce operational risk through improved automation, monitoring, and policy enforcement
One Year:
- Own the reliability, scalability, and governance posture of core GenAI platform services adopted across multiple product lines
- Drive measurable improvements in uptime, latency consistency, cost efficiency, and safety compliance
- Be recognized as a technical authority in enterprise GenAI platform engineering and AIOps within the organization
Belong — Your Community
Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you’ll grow and belong here.
Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong
- Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
- Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
- Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
- Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
- Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
- We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $178,000 - $265,000 plus bonus
Ready to Be the Difference?
Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis
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Get Access To All JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Which cybersecurity companies in California sponsor H-1B visas?
California is home to some of the most active H-1B sponsors in cybersecurity. Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, and Zscaler are headquartered in the state and have filed significant numbers of H-1B petitions for security roles. Large tech employers like Google, Apple, and Meta also sponsor H-1B visas for cybersecurity positions across their California offices.
Which cities in California have the most cybersecurity H-1B sponsorship jobs?
The San Francisco Bay Area, particularly Silicon Valley cities like San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale, accounts for the largest share of cybersecurity H-1B roles in California. Los Angeles has a growing base of employers in entertainment tech and aerospace cybersecurity. San Diego is notable for defense contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton and SAIC, which regularly sponsor H-1B visas for security professionals.
What types of cybersecurity roles typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship in California?
Roles that require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field generally qualify as specialty occupations under the H-1B. In cybersecurity, this commonly includes positions such as security engineer, penetration tester, security analyst, cloud security architect, and threat intelligence analyst. Roles where the degree requirement is specific to computer science, information security, or a closely related field tend to have the clearest qualification path.
How do I find cybersecurity H-1B sponsorship jobs in California?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international job seekers and filters cybersecurity roles in California by H-1B sponsorship availability, so you are not sorting through listings from employers who do not sponsor. You can browse by city, role type, and experience level to find positions matched to your background. Searching on Migrate Mate saves time compared to filtering general job boards where sponsorship status is often unclear or missing entirely.
Are there any California-specific considerations for cybersecurity H-1B sponsorship?
California's concentration of defense contractors means some cybersecurity roles require U.S. security clearances, which H-1B holders are generally not eligible to obtain. This effectively limits sponsorship to commercial sector and non-classified positions for most international candidates. Additionally, California's high cost of living means prevailing wage determinations for H-1B Labor Condition Applications in cities like San Francisco and San Jose tend to be among the highest in the country.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B cybersecurity 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.
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