Jobs / United States / Nvidia Corporation
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 US, CA, Santa Clara
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Nvidia Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
NVIDIA is looking for senior DevOps Engineer to lead DevOps effort, increase availability, improve quality and reduce delivery time for internal services developed by multiple teams and used throughout the company worldwide. With your help, our supportive and friendly team will be able to focus on more exciting programming tasks, better serving needs of our customers through new and improved CI/CD processes. We work in a dynamic environment where multiple projects will be active at once and priorities may shift frequently. We are looking for hardworking engineers who aren’t afraid of taking up new technologies, processes, and tools to make constant improvement on the automation infrastructure. The engineer will collaborate closely with our software developers as well as performance analysts to build and improve the world-class automation infrastructure. What you’ll be doing: • Develop and support staging and production environments for multiple internal services. • Coordinate with various teams across the globe to promote and improve CI/CD practices. • Help to build services using on premise Kubernetes and commercial clouds. • You will be working in a team with great flexibility in your technical decisions. What we need to see: • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience) • 8+ years of experience • Excellent programming and debugging skills in scripting languages • Proven Linux system administration experience (CentOS and Ubuntu strongly preferred) • Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools (GitLab or similar) • Database administration and performance tuning experience • Experience with Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Web Services (SOAP/REST) and Scalable Storage(HDFS/Ceph) Ways to stand out from the crowd: • You have expertise in Python programming • Familiarity with Windows system administration is a huge advantage • You have worked with cloud services (AWS, Azure and others) We are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most hard-working and dedicated people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous with a real passion for technology we want to hear from you. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits . Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 16, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.