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Get Access To All JobsAt Sonatus, we're driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can't keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry—where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That's why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 6 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we're solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what's possible as we shape the future of mobility.
Role Summary: Sonatus builds the software platform for AI-enabled, software-defined vehicles. Our CI/CD platform serves over 200 repositories across three product lines, producing firmware that ships to automotive OEMs. We are looking for a Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer to own the delivery platform: CI/CD pipelines, release automation, artifact management, build tooling, and the instrumentation that tells us whether it's all working. Today, our delivery infrastructure is fragmented — multiple Jenkins instances configured by hand, release processes driven by ad-hoc scripts, and no unified metrics on how software moves from commit to customer. You will consolidate this into a unified, codified, observable delivery platform. You think in terms of systems, supply chains, and feedback loops — not individual pipelines.
Responsibilities:
CI/CD platform architecture: Own the consolidation and evolution of multiple Jenkins instances into a unified, configuration-as-code managed platform. Drive the migration strategy across Jenkins and GitHub Actions for 200+ repositories. Design shared pipeline libraries and patterns that scale across product lines without fragmenting into per-team forks.
Release engineering: Own the release tooling and automation for multi-product releases spanning three hardware platforms and multiple automotive customers. Tagging, branching, config generation, and customer artifact delivery. The current toolchain is functional but brittle — your job is to make releases reliable, repeatable, and auditable.
Artifact lifecycle management: Own the Artifactory platform (JFrog SaaS): repository structure, retention policies, token lifecycle, build promotion from staging to release, and customer-facing distribution. You manage the full artifact flow from build output to customer delivery.
Build tooling and reproducibility: Own the build system architecture across three divergent toolchains: Bazel for hermetic static builds, CMake for the embedded monorepo, and Yocto for custom embedded distributions. Drive toward reproducible, cacheable, fast builds regardless of the underlying toolchain.
Security scanning integration: Own the integration of static analysis (Coverity) and software composition analysis (BlackDuck) into CI/CD pipelines. Automate scan scheduling, report generation, and quality gate enforcement to meet automotive compliance requirements (ESIR-ISIR).
CI/CD observability and DORA metrics: Instrument the delivery pipeline with OpenTelemetry. Define and measure the four DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery. Build dashboards that make delivery health visible. Own the 30-minute build SLO.
Software supply chain: Own dependency management, credential lifecycle, artifact provenance, and the path toward SBOM generation. Eliminate manual credential management and single-person dependencies from the delivery pipeline. Every artifact should be traceable from the source commit to customer delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or release engineering, with hands-on ownership of CI/CD platforms at scale — not just pipeline authoring, but platform architecture, reliability, and evolution
- CI/CD platform expertise — Deep experience with Jenkins (multi-controller, shared libraries, JCasC, distributed agents) or equivalent enterprise CI/CD platform. You've operated the platform, not just consumed it
- Release engineering — You have owned or built release automation for a multi-product software organization. You understand branching strategies, semantic versioning, promotion workflows, and customer delivery mechanics
- Artifact management — Experience with JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or similar. You've designed repository structures, managed token lifecycles, and implemented retention policies at scale
- Infrastructure as Code mindset — Terraform or equivalent for managing platform configuration as code. You treat configuration drift as a bug. Jenkins configured through a UI is a problem to solve, not a steady state
- Observability and instrumentation — You have implemented DORA metrics, build SLOs, or equivalent delivery pipeline instrumentation. Experience with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar stacks
- Software supply chain awareness — Dependency management, credential hygiene, security scanning integration (SAST/SCA), and the principles behind reproducible builds. You understand why "it works on the build server" is not acceptable
Nice to Have:
- GitHub Actions at scale (ARC self-hosted runners, OIDC authentication, org-wide reusable workflows)
- Embedded build toolchains (Bazel, Yocto, CMake cross-compilation)
- Automotive compliance experience (ESIR-ISIR, ASPICE, MISRA)
- Experience migrating or consolidating legacy CI/CD infrastructure into modern platforms
Sunnyvale HQ Benefits & Perks Offered:
- Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Flexible and Dependent Care Expense program
- Retirement plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Unlimited paid time off per year, 14+ paid holidays
- Hybrid office work arrangement
- Complimentary lunches, snacks, and beverages during on-site working days
- Wellness benefit allowance
- Phone & Internet reimbursement
- Computer Accessory Allowance
The posted salary range is a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate of what Sonatus ("Company") could reasonably expect to pay for a base salary for this position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. The Company reserves the right to modify this range in the future, as needed, as market conditions change.
Base Salary Pay Range $198,000—$260,000 USD
At Sonatus, we're driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can't keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry—where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That's why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 6 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we're solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what's possible as we shape the future of mobility.
Role Summary: Sonatus builds the software platform for AI-enabled, software-defined vehicles. Our CI/CD platform serves over 200 repositories across three product lines, producing firmware that ships to automotive OEMs. We are looking for a Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer to own the delivery platform: CI/CD pipelines, release automation, artifact management, build tooling, and the instrumentation that tells us whether it's all working. Today, our delivery infrastructure is fragmented — multiple Jenkins instances configured by hand, release processes driven by ad-hoc scripts, and no unified metrics on how software moves from commit to customer. You will consolidate this into a unified, codified, observable delivery platform. You think in terms of systems, supply chains, and feedback loops — not individual pipelines.
Responsibilities:
CI/CD platform architecture: Own the consolidation and evolution of multiple Jenkins instances into a unified, configuration-as-code managed platform. Drive the migration strategy across Jenkins and GitHub Actions for 200+ repositories. Design shared pipeline libraries and patterns that scale across product lines without fragmenting into per-team forks.
Release engineering: Own the release tooling and automation for multi-product releases spanning three hardware platforms and multiple automotive customers. Tagging, branching, config generation, and customer artifact delivery. The current toolchain is functional but brittle — your job is to make releases reliable, repeatable, and auditable.
Artifact lifecycle management: Own the Artifactory platform (JFrog SaaS): repository structure, retention policies, token lifecycle, build promotion from staging to release, and customer-facing distribution. You manage the full artifact flow from build output to customer delivery.
Build tooling and reproducibility: Own the build system architecture across three divergent toolchains: Bazel for hermetic static builds, CMake for the embedded monorepo, and Yocto for custom embedded distributions. Drive toward reproducible, cacheable, fast builds regardless of the underlying toolchain.
Security scanning integration: Own the integration of static analysis (Coverity) and software composition analysis (BlackDuck) into CI/CD pipelines. Automate scan scheduling, report generation, and quality gate enforcement to meet automotive compliance requirements (ESIR-ISIR).
CI/CD observability and DORA metrics: Instrument the delivery pipeline with OpenTelemetry. Define and measure the four DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery. Build dashboards that make delivery health visible. Own the 30-minute build SLO.
Software supply chain: Own dependency management, credential lifecycle, artifact provenance, and the path toward SBOM generation. Eliminate manual credential management and single-person dependencies from the delivery pipeline. Every artifact should be traceable from the source commit to customer delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or release engineering, with hands-on ownership of CI/CD platforms at scale — not just pipeline authoring, but platform architecture, reliability, and evolution
- CI/CD platform expertise — Deep experience with Jenkins (multi-controller, shared libraries, JCasC, distributed agents) or equivalent enterprise CI/CD platform. You've operated the platform, not just consumed it
- Release engineering — You have owned or built release automation for a multi-product software organization. You understand branching strategies, semantic versioning, promotion workflows, and customer delivery mechanics
- Artifact management — Experience with JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or similar. You've designed repository structures, managed token lifecycles, and implemented retention policies at scale
- Infrastructure as Code mindset — Terraform or equivalent for managing platform configuration as code. You treat configuration drift as a bug. Jenkins configured through a UI is a problem to solve, not a steady state
- Observability and instrumentation — You have implemented DORA metrics, build SLOs, or equivalent delivery pipeline instrumentation. Experience with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar stacks
- Software supply chain awareness — Dependency management, credential hygiene, security scanning integration (SAST/SCA), and the principles behind reproducible builds. You understand why "it works on the build server" is not acceptable
Nice to Have:
- GitHub Actions at scale (ARC self-hosted runners, OIDC authentication, org-wide reusable workflows)
- Embedded build toolchains (Bazel, Yocto, CMake cross-compilation)
- Automotive compliance experience (ESIR-ISIR, ASPICE, MISRA)
- Experience migrating or consolidating legacy CI/CD infrastructure into modern platforms
Sunnyvale HQ Benefits & Perks Offered:
- Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Flexible and Dependent Care Expense program
- Retirement plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Unlimited paid time off per year, 14+ paid holidays
- Hybrid office work arrangement
- Complimentary lunches, snacks, and beverages during on-site working days
- Wellness benefit allowance
- Phone & Internet reimbursement
- Computer Accessory Allowance
The posted salary range is a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate of what Sonatus ("Company") could reasonably expect to pay for a base salary for this position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. The Company reserves the right to modify this range in the future, as needed, as market conditions change.
Base Salary Pay Range $198,000—$260,000 USD
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Devops Engineer
Target employers with a history of senior-level sponsorship
Large tech companies and cloud infrastructure firms routinely sponsor Staff DevOps Engineers. Filtering by employers who have filed H-1B petitions for senior IC roles gives you the strongest signal that sponsorship is genuinely on the table.
Lead with infrastructure scope, not just tooling
Visa petitions for Staff-level roles need to demonstrate complexity. Emphasize the scale of systems you own, cross-functional impact, and architectural decisions, not just the tools you use. This strengthens the specialty occupation argument in your petition.
Clarify your degree field early in the process
USCIS expects a degree in computer science, information technology, or a closely related field. If your degree is in a different discipline, prepare a credential evaluation and document how your coursework directly supports the DevOps role.
Understand the H-1B cap timeline before accepting an offer
If you're not currently on H-1B status, registration opens in March for an October start. Staff-level roles often qualify for cap-exempt employers like universities or nonprofits, which allows faster, off-cycle sponsorship worth exploring.
Ask about premium processing upfront
Premium processing reduces H-1B adjudication to 15 business days. For Staff Engineers with a start date tied to a team milestone, confirming whether the employer will elect premium processing helps you plan your transition with confidence.
Document your experience if your degree is outside computer science
Three years of qualifying work experience can substitute for one year of a four-year degree under USCIS rules. A detailed experience letter from a prior employer, describing specific technical responsibilities, can close the gap in your educational background.
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Does a Staff DevOps Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Staff DevOps Engineer roles consistently qualify as specialty occupations because they require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. USCIS expects a direct relationship between the degree field and the job duties. Roles focused on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD architecture, and platform engineering at the Staff level carry strong petitions because the complexity and technical depth are well-documented in job descriptions.
Which visa types are most commonly used to sponsor Staff DevOps Engineers?
The H-1B is the most common path, covering the large majority of Staff-level engineering sponsorships. The O-1A is an option for candidates with significant recognition in their field, such as open-source contributions, conference speaking, or published work. Australians can pursue the E-3, which has no lottery and allows year-round filing. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under the TN visa using the Computer Systems Analyst category, though the fit requires careful documentation at the Staff level.
How do I find Staff DevOps Engineer jobs that actually offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for roles open to visa sponsorship, so you're not spending time on applications that will dead-end. Staff-level DevOps roles with sponsorship tend to cluster at larger tech companies, cloud-native startups with institutional backing, and enterprise firms running significant infrastructure teams. Searching by seniority level on Migrate Mate helps surface employers who have a track record of sponsoring senior individual contributors.
My DevOps experience is strong but my degree is in a different field. Can I still get sponsored?
Potentially yes, but it requires preparation. USCIS allows three years of specialized work experience to substitute for one year of a four-year degree. If your degree is in a tangentially related field like mathematics or electrical engineering, a credential evaluation and a detailed position analysis letter from the employer can often bridge the gap. The argument is harder when the degree has no technical overlap with the role, so legal review before the employer files is strongly recommended.
Are H-1B approval rates strong for DevOps and infrastructure engineering roles?
Generally yes. Software and infrastructure engineering roles have among the higher approval rates in the H-1B program because the specialty occupation standard is well-established for technical degree-required positions. Staff-level roles carry an additional advantage: the seniority, compensation level, and scope of responsibilities all reinforce that the position requires theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge, which is exactly what USCIS evaluates.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Staff Devops 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.
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