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Senior Security Engineer
Sigma Computing INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA and New York, New York
Sponsorship verdict
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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 30 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 12 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 Sigma Computing INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles9 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $175k–$239k, median $214k. Most were filed at wage level IV (44%) — 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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The US Department of Labor certified 30 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 12 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Location: New York City or San Francisco - 4 days in office About the Role We are looking for a highly technical Senior Security Engineer who thrives on building security capabilities from the ground up. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges through engineering, automation, and AI rather than relying solely on commercial tools. You will help build, scale, and continuously evolve the next generation of security capabilities across our cloud-native SaaS platform, with a strong focus on AI security, automation, and scalable security operations. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving security problems across multiple domains rather than specializing exclusively in a single area. You will join a highly technical Security Engineering team that values innovation, ownership, and building scalable security solutions. This is a hands-on engineering role for builders, innovators, and problem-solvers who want to create security solutions that operate at scale. What You’ll Do Security Engineering • Design, build, and maintain security platforms, services, APIs, automation, and internal tooling. • Develop solutions that streamline Cloud vulnerability management, Network Security, Detection engineering, Incident response, access governance, and security operations. • Use software engineering principles to build detections-as-code, security workflows, internal platforms, and scalable security services that enable the organization to move faster while remaining secure. • Leverage AI extensively to accelerate investigations, automate workflows, improve decision making, and reduce operational overhead. AI & LLM Security • Design and implement security controls for AI applications, LLM-powered services, agents, and AI development workflows. • Build guardrails and security tooling to identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, excessive permissions, insecure plugins, and unsafe AI interactions. • Develop monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for AI systems and AI-generated content. • Partner with product and engineering teams to securely enable AI innovation across the organization. Identity & SaaS Security • Build and maintain detections-as-code across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application environments. • Design and implement security controls across SaaS platforms, workforce identities, privileged access, and machine identities. • Partner with engineering teams to implement secure-by-design architectures and security best practices. • Perform architecture reviews and threat modeling for cloud services, AI-enabled applications, APIs, and infrastructure changes. Security Innovation & Automation • Continuously identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and modern engineering practices to solve security challenges. • Develop custom security tools, dashboards, APIs, services, and integrations. • Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they provide measurable security and operational value. What We’re Looking For Required Qualifications • 5+ years of Hands-on experience in Security Engineering, or related cybersecurity roles. • Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science, Cyber Security or similar roles. • Strong software engineering mindset with demonstrated experience building production-grade tools, automation, and security platforms. • Proven ability to build versus buy whenever practical and create scalable internal solutions. • Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages, with experience building tools,using open source, APIs, automation, and cloud-native services • Strong understanding of cloud architecture, identity systems, networking, operating systems, and modern security principle