Salesforce Engineer Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Salesforce Engineer roles qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B visa, E-3 visa, and TN visas, making employer sponsorship a realistic path for candidates with a relevant degree. Demand from enterprise software teams and ISV partners keeps LCA filings active year-round, with no seasonal hiring pattern to work around. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsThe Core Client - CRM team builds and supports the enterprise capabilities that power how Thrivent understands, manages, and strengthens client relationships. Our Salesforce platform sits at the heart of the client experience, connecting advisors, service teams, and business partners with the information and tools they need to serve clients effectively and confidently.
As the Senior Salesforce Engineer you will be a trusted technical expert, integrating enterprise solution with Salesforce Sales Cloud - Service Cloud. This role is responsible for designing, documenting, building, testing, implementing, and maintaining solutions that meet the needs of our business partners. The Senior Salesforce Engineer collaborates with product partners, engineering leaders, architects, and other developers to deliver high-quality solutions, reduce risk, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Solution Architecture and Systems Design
- Review and understand user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
- Partner with the Lead Salesforce Engineer to define solutions that align with Salesforce best practices, enterprise technical strategies, and product priorities.
- Translate complex business needs into maintainable and scalable technical solutions.
- Participate in technical design discussions and document important solution decisions.
- Deliver solutions that meet expectations for quality, stability, scalability, security, and resilience.
Application Implementation and Maintenance
- Design and develop Salesforce solutions using configuration, customization, and appropriate integration patterns.
- Implement new features and enhancements using established engineering standards and approved change-management processes.
- Develop and maintain Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, integrations, and supporting platform capabilities.
- Conduct unit testing including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
- Provide ongoing support for service requests, routine maintenance, production incidents, and general application operations.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across Salesforce and connected enterprise systems.
- Continuously improve solutions to strengthen system stability, scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Use automation to streamline testing, improve delivery workflows, and reduce manual processes.
- Support observability and monitoring capabilities that enable proactive issue detection, notification, and response.
- Contribute to improvements in CI/CD, DevOps, development standards, and engineering practices.
Technical Leadership and Collaboration
- Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Help engineers build foundational development, testing, troubleshooting, and solution-design skills.
- Share product and domain knowledge so other team members can grow and contribute effectively.
- Apply technical expertise to help the team investigate and resolve complex software issues.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, business partners, and other technology teams.
- Contribute to reusable patterns, technical documentation, engineering standards, and team best practices.
- Participate in the broader technology community through internal forums, industry events, open-source contributions, or personal technology projects.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Required:
- 7 years of experience working in a Salesforce engineering environment.
- Deep expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Proficiency in Apex, including classes, triggers, and Batch Apex, as well as JavaScript, Lightning Web Components, and Visualforce.
- Experience with Salesforce integration and data technologies, including REST, SOAP, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, SOQL, and SOSL.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce configuration and automation capabilities, including custom objects, approval processes, Flow, and Data Loader.
- At least 3 years of recent experience with several enterprise integration or platform technologies, such as Java, Spring Boot, REST or SOAP APIs, Confluent Kafka, OpenShift, Docker, TC Server, RabbitMQ, or IBM MQ.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including tools such as Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ, Salesforce CLI, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Jira.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Salesforce and connected systems, including sharing and visibility challenges, bulk data operations, Apex errors, integrations, and external callouts.
- Experience working in a DevOps product environment and collaborating directly with product owners and business stakeholders.
Preferred:
- Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer certifications.
Pay Transparency
Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $132,513.00 - $179,282.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.
Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.
The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.
LOCATION: Remote
The Core Client - CRM team builds and supports the enterprise capabilities that power how Thrivent understands, manages, and strengthens client relationships. Our Salesforce platform sits at the heart of the client experience, connecting advisors, service teams, and business partners with the information and tools they need to serve clients effectively and confidently.
As the Senior Salesforce Engineer you will be a trusted technical expert, integrating enterprise solution with Salesforce Sales Cloud - Service Cloud. This role is responsible for designing, documenting, building, testing, implementing, and maintaining solutions that meet the needs of our business partners. The Senior Salesforce Engineer collaborates with product partners, engineering leaders, architects, and other developers to deliver high-quality solutions, reduce risk, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Solution Architecture and Systems Design
- Review and understand user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
- Partner with the Lead Salesforce Engineer to define solutions that align with Salesforce best practices, enterprise technical strategies, and product priorities.
- Translate complex business needs into maintainable and scalable technical solutions.
- Participate in technical design discussions and document important solution decisions.
- Deliver solutions that meet expectations for quality, stability, scalability, security, and resilience.
Application Implementation and Maintenance
- Design and develop Salesforce solutions using configuration, customization, and appropriate integration patterns.
- Implement new features and enhancements using established engineering standards and approved change-management processes.
- Develop and maintain Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, integrations, and supporting platform capabilities.
- Conduct unit testing including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
- Provide ongoing support for service requests, routine maintenance, production incidents, and general application operations.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across Salesforce and connected enterprise systems.
- Continuously improve solutions to strengthen system stability, scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Use automation to streamline testing, improve delivery workflows, and reduce manual processes.
- Support observability and monitoring capabilities that enable proactive issue detection, notification, and response.
- Contribute to improvements in CI/CD, DevOps, development standards, and engineering practices.
Technical Leadership and Collaboration
- Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Help engineers build foundational development, testing, troubleshooting, and solution-design skills.
- Share product and domain knowledge so other team members can grow and contribute effectively.
- Apply technical expertise to help the team investigate and resolve complex software issues.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, business partners, and other technology teams.
- Contribute to reusable patterns, technical documentation, engineering standards, and team best practices.
- Participate in the broader technology community through internal forums, industry events, open-source contributions, or personal technology projects.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Required:
- 7 years of experience working in a Salesforce engineering environment.
- Deep expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Proficiency in Apex, including classes, triggers, and Batch Apex, as well as JavaScript, Lightning Web Components, and Visualforce.
- Experience with Salesforce integration and data technologies, including REST, SOAP, Change Data Capture, Platform Events, SOQL, and SOSL.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce configuration and automation capabilities, including custom objects, approval processes, Flow, and Data Loader.
- At least 3 years of recent experience with several enterprise integration or platform technologies, such as Java, Spring Boot, REST or SOAP APIs, Confluent Kafka, OpenShift, Docker, TC Server, RabbitMQ, or IBM MQ.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including tools such as Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ, Salesforce CLI, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Jira.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Salesforce and connected systems, including sharing and visibility challenges, bulk data operations, Apex errors, integrations, and external callouts.
- Experience working in a DevOps product environment and collaborating directly with product owners and business stakeholders.
Preferred:
- Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer certifications.
Pay Transparency
Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $132,513.00 - $179,282.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.
Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.
The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.
LOCATION: Remote
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Salesforce Engineer
Align your degree to Salesforce Engineer requirements
USCIS scrutinizes whether your bachelor's degree field directly relates to the role. Computer Science, Information Systems, or Software Engineering degrees map cleanly. If your degree is in a less obvious field, gather course transcripts that demonstrate software development or database coursework.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the prevailing wage for your location and role. Pull the OFLC Wage Search figures before negotiations so you can confirm the offer meets DOL's threshold and avoid a certification delay.
Target ISVs and Salesforce implementation partners first
Salesforce-focused system integrators and independent software vendors file LCAs for Salesforce Engineer roles far more consistently than generalist employers do. These firms hire this role repeatedly, so their internal sponsorship processes are already established and faster to move through.
Find verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate's job board to browse Salesforce Engineer roles at employers with confirmed LCA filing history. This filters out companies that list the role but have never navigated the sponsorship process, saving you weeks of back-and-forth.
Clarify your Salesforce certifications in the I-129 petition
Certifications like Salesforce Certified Platform Developer or Application Architect aren't visa requirements, but they strengthen the specialty occupation argument in the I-129 petition by demonstrating the technical depth the role demands beyond a general IT background.
Confirm PERM timing if your offer includes a green card path
If your employer plans to sponsor an EB-2 or EB-3 green card, PERM labor certification must be filed separately from your work visa. Ask HR whether the company has a standard timeline for starting PERM alongside H-1B sponsorship, since delays affect your long-term status planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Salesforce Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS considers Salesforce Engineer a specialty occupation when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a directly related field. Job descriptions that list a specific technical degree as required, rather than preferred, produce cleaner petitions. Roles that mix Salesforce administration with general business analysis can face requests for evidence if the degree requirement isn't clearly articulated.
Which work visas cover Salesforce Engineer jobs with employer sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path and covers all nationalities, though it's subject to an annual cap and selection process. Australian citizens can use the E-3, which has a separate cap that has never been exhausted and renews every two years. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN if their role maps to a USMCA-listed profession such as Computer Systems Analyst. Each visa requires the employer to file a Labor Condition Application with DOL before the petition or consular application proceeds.
How do I find Salesforce Engineer jobs where the employer is already set up to sponsor visas?
Migrate Mate lists Salesforce Engineer roles at employers with verified LCA filing history, so you can focus on companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process rather than educating a recruiter from scratch.
Does my Salesforce certification count toward the specialty occupation requirement?
Salesforce certifications like Platform Developer II or Application Architect don't substitute for a bachelor's degree in USCIS's specialty occupation analysis, but they do support the argument that the role requires specialized, theoretical knowledge beyond general IT skills. Including certifications in the job description and the I-129 petition strengthens the employer's case that the position can't be filled by someone without technical depth. They're most useful when the degree field isn't a perfect match.
Can I switch Salesforce Engineer jobs while on H-1B without losing my status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start work with a new employer once the new I-129 petition is filed with USCIS, without waiting for approval. The new employer must file before your current status expires, and the new role must still qualify as a specialty occupation. If you're mid-green card process, check with your employer about how a job change affects any pending I-140 petition under AC21 portability rules.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Salesforce Engineer 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.