Data Engineering Manager Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Data Engineering Manager roles are among the most consistently sponsored positions in tech. Employers regularly file H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for this title, and the specialty occupation standard is well-established for candidates with a degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsBuild the crawlers and AI search algorithm behind Rotto: millions of candidate profiles, thousands of career pages, every day.
- $130k to $160k USD
- Early employee equity
- NYC
- In person
- Full time
- Health insurance
- 20 days PTO
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation
Stack: Crawling · Scraping · Python · Playwright · Postgres · Vectors · Proxies · Anti-bot
About Rotto
Rotto is an AI search engine for recruiting. A recruiter describes the hire in plain English, and a hybrid semantic and lexical retrieval engine parses the intent, embeds it, and ranks millions of candidate profiles in real time.
It is built by the same team behind Migrate Mate, the job board for international talent in the US, which earned our founders Forbes 30 Under 30. We are a team of seven. We've raised $3M and are now hiring to scale Rotto and launch new products.
We move very fast with basically zero bureaucracy. You will work directly with the founders (& engineering team) every day. We work five days a week, 10 to 11 hours a day, in person, and occasionally on Saturdays. This is an ASAP hire: we would like you to start within weeks of an offer.
What you will work on
- Scrapers that pull jobs from thousands of company career pages and job boards, every day.
- The Postgres search that ranks millions of candidate profiles from a plain-English prompt.
- The cloud infrastructure both run on, and the cost and latency of every request.
What we are looking for
We don't care about years of experience, education or pedigree. We just want you to be cracked at owning & scaling backend systems.
Must haves
- You have built and run web scrapers in production (ideally against job boards).
- You have scaled cloud infrastructure in production.
- You obsess over detail and are great at making tradeoffs, e.g. cutting latency without raising the cost of a search.
- You are AI native but not AI reliant: you use AI to move fast, and understand what it writes well enough to change it without AI.
Nice to haves
- Strong Python.
- Headless browsers (Playwright, Selenium or similar), proxies and anti-bot work.
- Tuning Postgres or vector search: indexes, query plans, pgvector.
- You have worked at a web scraping, data provider or job board company.
- You have worked at (or founded) an early-stage startup.
Is this you?
You'll thrive if
- You learn unusually fast and can be useful on an unknown topic within a day.
- Not knowing doesn't scare you, it excites you to learn.
- You are happy with little structure and manage yourself.
- You have a can-do attitude. You solve hard challenges without complaining.
- You communicate clearly and can explain the same idea to a customer and to a senior engineer.
- You push back on bad ideas, without questioning every decision.
Don't apply if
- You want a clear spec, a roadmap and a process to follow.
- You want to work remotely or hybrid.
- You want a 40-hour week. "Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week" - Elon Musk
- You need a big team around you before you can ship.
Work Authorization
We sponsor visas and will relocate the right person to New York. U.S. citizens, people with work authorization and people who need sponsorship can all apply.
US Citizens · Green Card Holders · E-3 · F-1 OPT · H-1B (transfer only) · H-1B1 · J-1 · O-1 · TN
How hiring works
- Apply: Two minutes, below.
- Assessment: If you are a fit, we email you a technical assessment.
- Code review call: We go through your code together.
- Culture-fit interview: We want to get to know you as a person.
- In-person trial: Work with us in NYC. We'll cover costs. Based on your schedule.
- Offer: You could be starting at Rotto within weeks.
Applications close when we find the right fit.
Build the crawlers and AI search algorithm behind Rotto: millions of candidate profiles, thousands of career pages, every day.
- $130k to $160k USD
- Early employee equity
- NYC
- In person
- Full time
- Health insurance
- 20 days PTO
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation
Stack: Crawling · Scraping · Python · Playwright · Postgres · Vectors · Proxies · Anti-bot
About Rotto
Rotto is an AI search engine for recruiting. A recruiter describes the hire in plain English, and a hybrid semantic and lexical retrieval engine parses the intent, embeds it, and ranks millions of candidate profiles in real time.
It is built by the same team behind Migrate Mate, the job board for international talent in the US, which earned our founders Forbes 30 Under 30. We are a team of seven. We've raised $3M and are now hiring to scale Rotto and launch new products.
We move very fast with basically zero bureaucracy. You will work directly with the founders (& engineering team) every day. We work five days a week, 10 to 11 hours a day, in person, and occasionally on Saturdays. This is an ASAP hire: we would like you to start within weeks of an offer.
What you will work on
- Scrapers that pull jobs from thousands of company career pages and job boards, every day.
- The Postgres search that ranks millions of candidate profiles from a plain-English prompt.
- The cloud infrastructure both run on, and the cost and latency of every request.
What we are looking for
We don't care about years of experience, education or pedigree. We just want you to be cracked at owning & scaling backend systems.
Must haves
- You have built and run web scrapers in production (ideally against job boards).
- You have scaled cloud infrastructure in production.
- You obsess over detail and are great at making tradeoffs, e.g. cutting latency without raising the cost of a search.
- You are AI native but not AI reliant: you use AI to move fast, and understand what it writes well enough to change it without AI.
Nice to haves
- Strong Python.
- Headless browsers (Playwright, Selenium or similar), proxies and anti-bot work.
- Tuning Postgres or vector search: indexes, query plans, pgvector.
- You have worked at a web scraping, data provider or job board company.
- You have worked at (or founded) an early-stage startup.
Is this you?
You'll thrive if
- You learn unusually fast and can be useful on an unknown topic within a day.
- Not knowing doesn't scare you, it excites you to learn.
- You are happy with little structure and manage yourself.
- You have a can-do attitude. You solve hard challenges without complaining.
- You communicate clearly and can explain the same idea to a customer and to a senior engineer.
- You push back on bad ideas, without questioning every decision.
Don't apply if
- You want a clear spec, a roadmap and a process to follow.
- You want to work remotely or hybrid.
- You want a 40-hour week. "Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week" - Elon Musk
- You need a big team around you before you can ship.
Work Authorization
We sponsor visas and will relocate the right person to New York. U.S. citizens, people with work authorization and people who need sponsorship can all apply.
US Citizens · Green Card Holders · E-3 · F-1 OPT · H-1B (transfer only) · H-1B1 · J-1 · O-1 · TN
How hiring works
- Apply: Two minutes, below.
- Assessment: If you are a fit, we email you a technical assessment.
- Code review call: We go through your code together.
- Culture-fit interview: We want to get to know you as a person.
- In-person trial: Work with us in NYC. We'll cover costs. Based on your schedule.
- Offer: You could be starting at Rotto within weeks.
Applications close when we find the right fit.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Data Engineering Manager
Lead with your technical depth, not just your management experience
Visa petitions for this role must satisfy the specialty occupation standard. Emphasizing your hands-on expertise in data infrastructure, pipeline architecture, or distributed systems strengthens the degree-field connection that USCIS evaluates during adjudication.
Target employers with a documented H-1B filing history
Companies that have sponsored Data Engineering Manager roles before understand the LCA process, prevailing wage obligations, and petition timelines. Those with no prior H-1B filings often underestimate the complexity, which can delay or derail your offer.
Clarify your authorization status early in the process
Hiring managers at this seniority level often assume candidates are already authorized. Raising sponsorship in the first or second conversation, before the offer stage, avoids late-stage friction and ensures the right stakeholders are looped in from the start.
Align your resume to a specific technical domain
Petitions are stronger when the job duties map clearly to a defined specialty. Whether your background is in cloud data platforms, real-time analytics, or ML infrastructure, framing your experience around one domain makes the specialty occupation argument more defensible.
Prepare documentation that connects your degree to the role
USCIS may issue an RFE if the degree field is not an obvious match. A credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator and a support letter from your employer explaining how your specific field underpins the role can preempt this entirely.
Use Migrate Mate to focus your search on verified sponsoring employers
Filtering for companies that actively sponsor removes the guesswork from your job search at this level. Migrate Mate surfaces Data Engineering Manager roles from employers with confirmed sponsorship history, so your outreach goes to the right places from the start.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Data Engineering Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in the vast majority of cases. USCIS consistently recognizes data engineering roles as specialty occupations when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a closely related field. Petitions are stronger when the job description emphasizes technical depth, such as system design or architecture responsibilities, rather than purely administrative management duties.
Does my degree field need to match data engineering specifically?
Not exactly, but the connection must be defensible. Degrees in computer science, software engineering, information systems, applied mathematics, or statistics are routinely accepted. A business or management degree alone is unlikely to satisfy the specialty occupation standard for this role. If your degree is in a tangential field, a credential evaluation and an employer support letter explaining the technical requirements of the position can help close the gap.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my chances as a Data Engineering Manager?
If you require a standard cap-subject H-1B visa, your petition enters the annual lottery alongside all other registrations. In recent fiscal years, selection rates have been around 25%. However, if you're transferring from another H-1B employer, changing to cap-exempt status through a qualifying institution, or exploring O-1A eligibility based on your record of achievement, you can bypass the lottery entirely.
Can I apply for an O-1A visa as a Data Engineering Manager?
Possibly, depending on your track record. The O-1A requires evidence of extraordinary ability across criteria such as awards, published work, high salary relative to peers, critical roles at distinguished organizations, or original contributions to the field. Senior data engineering leaders with patents, conference speaking history, open-source project contributions, or recognition from professional organizations may have a realistic path to O-1A outside the H-1B lottery.
Where can I find Data Engineering Manager jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this. It lists Data Engineering Manager roles from employers with verified H-1B sponsorship history, so you're not guessing which companies will actually support a petition. Searching on general job boards makes it difficult to filter out roles where sponsorship is a dealbreaker, which wastes significant time at a seniority level where hiring processes are already lengthy.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Data Engineering Manager jobs?
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.