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Software engineering is one of the most actively sponsored job categories in the U.S., with the majority of positions offering H-1B visa sponsorship. Most roles require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, and STEM degree holders benefit from extended OPT periods while pursuing long-term sponsorship. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Join OCI’s Edge Security team as a Principal Software Engineer focused on building and scaling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform. You will lead the design and development of highly available, cloud-scale services that protect customer applications from web-based threats, automate security enforcement, and deliver advanced traffic inspection and policy management capabilities across OCI’s global infrastructure.
In this role, you will drive the architecture of distributed systems that power WAF features such as threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics. You will partner closely with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver secure, performant, and reliable services while helping define the long-term technical vision for OCI’s application security portfolio.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform.
- Design and evolve highly available policy management, rule evaluation, traffic inspection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics services.
- Build scalable distributed systems that process and analyze high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and high reliability.
- Drive engineering excellence through software architecture reviews, design documentation, code quality standards, and operational best practices.
- Partner closely with Security Engineering, Product Management, SRE, and OCI platform teams to define and deliver next-generation application security capabilities.
- Establish robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring to ensure service health and customer visibility.
- Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and help raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7–10+ years building production software systems, including experience developing large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments.
- Strong proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.
- Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, TLS, reverse proxies, caching, load balancing, and web application architectures.
- Experience building customer-facing platform services with strict requirements around availability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, performance optimization, code quality, and secure software development practices.
- Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively across engineering, security, product, and operations organizations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience building or operating Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, Bot Management, CDN, Edge Computing, or related security products.
- Knowledge of common web application attack vectors, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, credential abuse, automated attacks, and API threats.
- Experience with rule engines, policy evaluation systems, threat detection platforms, or traffic inspection technologies.
- Background building high-throughput analytics, telemetry, or event-processing pipelines for real-time security insights.
- Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.
- Familiarity with modern security architectures, Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with compliance, audit readiness, and security-by-design development practices.
- Contributions to open-source software, security tooling, or cloud infrastructure projects are a plus.
HOW YOU'LL HAVE IMPACT
- Deliver core WAF capabilities that protect OCI customers from application-layer attacks while maintaining performance and availability.
- Launch customer-facing security features that provide visibility, protection, automation, and policy control at cloud scale.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and operational maturity of OCI's application security platform.
- Raise engineering quality and technical standards through mentorship, architectural leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.
WAYS OF WORKING
- Security, privacy, and reliability by design with secure development practices embedded throughout the software lifecycle.
- Data-driven decision making supported by clear metrics, SLOs, operational reviews, and measurable customer outcomes.
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Collaborative engineering culture focused on design reviews, code reviews, technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
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Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, and application protection capabilities.
- Design and evolve scalable policy management, rule evaluation, threat detection, bot mitigation, traffic inspection, and security analytics platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, and extensibility.
- Build highly available distributed systems that inspect and process large volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and a seamless customer experience.
- Drive the technical strategy for application security services, partnering with Security Engineering, Product Management, Edge Infrastructure, and Platform teams to deliver new capabilities.
- Establish operational excellence through SLOs/SLAs, incident response processes, runbooks, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
- Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, deployment automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and developer productivity tooling.
INTRODUCTION
Join OCI’s Edge Security team as a Principal Software Engineer focused on building and scaling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform. You will lead the design and development of highly available, cloud-scale services that protect customer applications from web-based threats, automate security enforcement, and deliver advanced traffic inspection and policy management capabilities across OCI’s global infrastructure.
In this role, you will drive the architecture of distributed systems that power WAF features such as threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics. You will partner closely with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver secure, performant, and reliable services while helping define the long-term technical vision for OCI’s application security portfolio.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform.
- Design and evolve highly available policy management, rule evaluation, traffic inspection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics services.
- Build scalable distributed systems that process and analyze high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and high reliability.
- Drive engineering excellence through software architecture reviews, design documentation, code quality standards, and operational best practices.
- Partner closely with Security Engineering, Product Management, SRE, and OCI platform teams to define and deliver next-generation application security capabilities.
- Establish robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring to ensure service health and customer visibility.
- Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and help raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7–10+ years building production software systems, including experience developing large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments.
- Strong proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.
- Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, TLS, reverse proxies, caching, load balancing, and web application architectures.
- Experience building customer-facing platform services with strict requirements around availability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, performance optimization, code quality, and secure software development practices.
- Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively across engineering, security, product, and operations organizations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience building or operating Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, Bot Management, CDN, Edge Computing, or related security products.
- Knowledge of common web application attack vectors, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, credential abuse, automated attacks, and API threats.
- Experience with rule engines, policy evaluation systems, threat detection platforms, or traffic inspection technologies.
- Background building high-throughput analytics, telemetry, or event-processing pipelines for real-time security insights.
- Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.
- Familiarity with modern security architectures, Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with compliance, audit readiness, and security-by-design development practices.
- Contributions to open-source software, security tooling, or cloud infrastructure projects are a plus.
HOW YOU'LL HAVE IMPACT
- Deliver core WAF capabilities that protect OCI customers from application-layer attacks while maintaining performance and availability.
- Launch customer-facing security features that provide visibility, protection, automation, and policy control at cloud scale.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and operational maturity of OCI's application security platform.
- Raise engineering quality and technical standards through mentorship, architectural leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.
WAYS OF WORKING
- Security, privacy, and reliability by design with secure development practices embedded throughout the software lifecycle.
- Data-driven decision making supported by clear metrics, SLOs, operational reviews, and measurable customer outcomes.
-
Collaborative engineering culture focused on design reviews, code reviews, technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
-
Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, and application protection capabilities.
- Design and evolve scalable policy management, rule evaluation, threat detection, bot mitigation, traffic inspection, and security analytics platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, and extensibility.
- Build highly available distributed systems that inspect and process large volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and a seamless customer experience.
- Drive the technical strategy for application security services, partnering with Security Engineering, Product Management, Edge Infrastructure, and Platform teams to deliver new capabilities.
- Establish operational excellence through SLOs/SLAs, incident response processes, runbooks, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
- Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, deployment automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and developer productivity tooling.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
Target Companies with Active Sponsorship Programs
Look for companies that explicitly mention visa sponsorship in job postings or have dedicated immigration teams. Large tech companies, consulting firms, and research institutions are most likely to sponsor across multiple visa categories.
Start Your Job Search 6–9 Months Early
Visa sponsorship adds processing time to any offer. Starting your search early gives employers enough runway for interviews, offer negotiation, and legal preparation — regardless of which visa type applies to you.
Use OPT & STEM OPT to Prove Your Value
CS is STEM-eligible, giving you up to 3 years of work authorization (12 months of OPT plus a 24-month STEM extension). Employers can evaluate you on real work before committing to sponsorship.
Lead with Technical Skills, Not Visa Status
Focus on system design, algorithms, and engineering experience in interviews. Most large tech companies expect to sponsor - save visa logistics for the offer stage.
Specialize in High-Demand Areas
Distributed systems, ML infrastructure, security engineering, and platform roles tend to have stronger sponsorship demand than generic full-stack positions.
Consider Cap-Exempt Tech Roles
University research labs, federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), and national labs are H-1B cap-exempt - no lottery required, and you can file any time of year.
Frequently Asked Questions
What degree do I need to get sponsored as a software engineer?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field is the standard requirement for H-1B visa sponsorship. Equivalent experience can sometimes substitute (generally 3 years of progressive experience per year of missing education), but having a directly relevant degree makes the H-1B petition significantly stronger.
How to find Software Engineer jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find Software Engineer jobs with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in connecting international talent with sponsoring employers. Focus on tech companies, startups, and Fortune 500 firms that commonly sponsor H-1B, L-1 visa, and O-1 visas for software engineers. Filter searches by visa sponsorship availability and target companies with established immigration programs for the best opportunities.
Can self-taught software engineers get visa sponsorship?
It's possible but more challenging. H-1B requires the position to be a specialty occupation needing a bachelor's degree, and USCIS evaluates whether the applicant has degree equivalency through a combination of education and experience. Bootcamp certificates alone don't substitute for a degree, but a strong portfolio combined with years of relevant work experience may qualify through an education equivalency evaluation.
What are H-1B approval rates like for software engineers?
Software engineering consistently has strong H-1B approval rates, and it's one of the most commonly sponsored occupations. The role clearly meets specialty occupation criteria, and employer demand remains high. The main bottleneck is the lottery - getting selected is the harder part, not getting the petition approved once filed.
Do big tech companies sponsor more than startups?
Large tech companies generally have more established sponsorship programs, dedicated immigration legal teams, and higher petition volumes. Startups can and do sponsor, but smaller companies may be less familiar with the process or more risk-averse about the costs and timelines. That said, some startups are very willing to sponsor for the right candidate - they just may need more guidance on the process.
Can I work on open-source projects or freelance while on an H-1B?
H-1B is employer-specific - you can only work for the sponsoring employer in the role described in your petition. Contributing to unpaid open-source projects is generally considered permissible since it's not compensated employment, but freelance work for pay is not allowed unless the freelance client files a separate H-1B petition for you.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Software Engineer jobs?
When a U.S. employer sponsors a foreign worker for a work visa, they are legally required to pay at least the "prevailing wage", the average wage paid to workers in the same occupation, in the same geographic area, with similar experience. This is set by the Department of Labor to prevent employers from hiring foreign workers at below-market rates. The prevailing wage varies significantly by role, location, and experience level. For example, a software engineer in California will have a different prevailing wage than the same role in a smaller state. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search Page.