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Site Reliability Engineer II
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 United States - California - Sylmar
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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 73 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 28 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 Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $120k–$149k, median $135k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% 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 73 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 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Position Title: Site Reliability Engineer II Team: CRM DevOps Employment Type: Full-Time About the Role This Site Reliability Engineer II position works on-site out of our Sylmar, CA or Sunnyvale, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. We are seeking a highly skilled and mission-driven Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our DevOps team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence of Merlin.net — a remote monitoring platform designed to help doctors, cardiologists, and care teams automatically collect and review data from patients with implanted cardiac devices. This isn't just about keeping servers up; it's about building and maintaining the resilient backbone for systems where failure is not an option, and where our success directly impacts patient care around the world. You will embed within our DevOps team, acting as a bridge between development and operations. What You'll Do • Design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems that meet demanding uptime and safety requirements. • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in software and infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput, and real-time responsiveness for customer-facing services. • Define, monitor, and uphold Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets. • Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions to provide deep insights into system health and behavior at scale. • Automate away manual operational tasks, from provisioning and deployment to testing and recovery. • Develop and implement strategies for scaling our services and infrastructure to meet evolving business demands, including distributed systems and cloud deployments in Azure. • Work closely with software engineering, security, quality, and compliance teams to integrate SRE best practices into our operational processes and infrastructure, ensuring the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of our systems that carry sensitive patient health data. • Create clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and playbooks for operational procedures. Lead blameless postmortem processes following incidents and drive systematic follow-through on action items. • Work with a multi-disciplinary team on challenging problems in a fast-paced environment, contributing across architecture reviews, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability roadmap planning. Required Qualifications • Associates Degree • Minimum of one (1) year of full-time related work experience • Excellent communication skills with the demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders, and collaborate with development, quality, security, marketing, and regulatory teams. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a methodical and structured approach to diagnosing complex, distributed system issues under pressure — including production incidents with patient safety implications. • Proficiency in at least one systems or automation programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell) for building tooling, automation, and operational systems. • Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Azure — includin