E-3 Sponsorship Jobs in Washington
Washington is one of the strongest states for E-3 visa sponsorship, driven by Seattle's dense concentration of technology, aerospace, and biotech employers. Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, and hundreds of mid-size firms regularly sponsor E-3 visas across software engineering, life sciences, and professional services roles.
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About the team
The USDS JV AI Infra SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build and run large-scale, globally distributed, observable, fault-tolerant systems for TikTok state-of-the-Art Recommendation and Search engines. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large-scale service mesh architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Recommendation and Search systems — from system design consulting through to launch reviews, deployment, operation and refinement
- Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability and scalability of services, automate operations and improve R&D efficiency
- Build availability of large-scale services deployed across global data centers
- Plan, manage and optimize cloud resources utilization, ensuring SLA of large-scale clusters
- Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 5+ years of related work experience
- Experience in SRE of large-scale systems deployment with high reliability and scalability
- Familiar with system operation skills in Linux and network
- Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Perl, Go, or C/C++
- Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Familiar with popular CI/CD procedures and environments
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in SRE for Recommendation Systems, Search, or Advertising platforms.
- Familiarity with the ML lifecycle and inference engines
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
About the team
The USDS JV AI Infra SRE team works with engineering and product teams to build and run large-scale, globally distributed, observable, fault-tolerant systems for TikTok state-of-the-Art Recommendation and Search engines. SREs on this team will deliver on production ownership and be responsible for observability and automation across complex, large-scale service mesh architectures.
Responsibilities:
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Recommendation and Search systems — from system design consulting through to launch reviews, deployment, operation and refinement
- Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability and scalability of services, automate operations and improve R&D efficiency
- Build availability of large-scale services deployed across global data centers
- Plan, manage and optimize cloud resources utilization, ensuring SLA of large-scale clusters
- Measure and monitor availability, latency and overall service health
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above majoring in Computer Science or related fields, with 5+ years of related work experience
- Experience in SRE of large-scale systems deployment with high reliability and scalability
- Familiar with system operation skills in Linux and network
- Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Perl, Go, or C/C++
- Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Familiar with popular CI/CD procedures and environments
- Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in SRE for Recommendation Systems, Search, or Advertising platforms.
- Familiarity with the ML lifecycle and inference engines
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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Tips for Finding E-3 Sponsorship Jobs in Washington
Target Seattle's Technology Corridor First
The Puget Sound region has one of the highest concentrations of H-1B visa and E-3 sponsors in the country. Companies in Bellevue, Redmond, and Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood regularly post roles that qualify as specialty occupations under E-3 requirements.
Check DOL LCA Disclosure Data for Washington Employers
The Department of Labor publishes Labor Condition Application filings by employer and state. Searching Washington LCA data shows which companies have recent E-3 sponsorship history, giving you a verified target list before you apply.
Look Beyond Big Tech to Aerospace and Biotech
Boeing's Washington operations and a growing cluster of biotech firms around the UW Medical Center sponsor E-3 visas for engineers, scientists, and analysts. These sectors often have less applicant competition than major software companies.
Use Migrate Mate to Filter for E-3 Sponsors
Migrate Mate lets you filter job listings specifically by visa type, so you can browse Washington roles where employers have confirmed E-3 sponsorship willingness, saving time you'd otherwise spend screening postings manually.
Engage Washington's Australian Professional Networks
Seattle has an active Australian expat community and several professional groups that connect Australians working in the U.S. These networks surface informal referrals at E-3-friendly employers that never appear in public job postings.
Prepare Your LCA Documentation Before Accepting an Offer
Washington employers familiar with E-3 sponsorship often move quickly once a candidate is selected. Having your educational credentials evaluated and your degree equivalency documented in advance prevents delays when your employer files the Labor Condition Application.
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Which industries in Washington sponsor the most E-3 visas?
Technology is Washington's dominant E-3 sponsoring industry, led by companies in cloud computing, software development, and enterprise platforms concentrated around Seattle and Redmond. Aerospace and defense engineering, biotech and life sciences, and management consulting firms also have consistent E-3 sponsorship activity. These sectors regularly hire for roles that meet the specialty occupation standard.
Which cities in Washington have the most E-3 sponsorship jobs?
Seattle is by far the largest E-3 job market in Washington, with Bellevue and Redmond forming a secondary cluster on the Eastside. Bothell has growing biotech and life sciences employers. Outside the greater Seattle metro, Spokane has a smaller but active healthcare and engineering employer base worth considering for less competitive markets.
What types of roles typically qualify for E-3 sponsorship in Washington?
Roles that require at minimum a bachelor's degree in a specific field qualify as specialty occupations under E-3 rules. In Washington, this commonly covers software engineers, data scientists, financial analysts, mechanical and electrical engineers, biomedical researchers, and management consultants. Positions where any bachelor's degree satisfies the requirement, regardless of field, generally do not qualify.
How do I find E-3 sponsorship jobs in Washington?
Migrate Mate is the most direct option, as it filters job listings by visa type so you can browse Washington roles from employers open to E-3 sponsorship without sorting through postings manually. You can also cross-reference DOL LCA disclosure data to identify Washington companies with recent E-3 filing history, then target those employers directly with tailored applications.
What is the prevailing wage for E-3 jobs in Washington?
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.