Carbon, Inc.

Carbon, Inc.

Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$314kDetected 28 days ago
PythonGoBashCode ReviewGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxDevOpsIncident ResponseComplianceDNSLoad BalancingLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

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odds of building a lasting career here

59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.

Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.

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H-1B wage level

the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry

Level II · 2×
Level I$152,7971 entry
Level II$187,0752 entries
Level III$221,3743 entries
Level IV$255,6534 entries

$11,774 more — $221,374 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.

Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,374 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

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About the role

  • Our company is built on the idea that diverse fields of study must come together to solve intractable problems.
  • You will be joining a diverse team with a vibrant culture, where team success is as important as celebrating individual contributions.
  • Help us change the world and we will help you change yours.

Nice to have

  • Experience connecting cloud services to physical devices or edge hardware in the field.
  • Experience with security and compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001) as they apply to cloud infrastructure.
  • You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position.
  • Seven or more years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in at least one of AWS or GCP and working proficiency in the other.
  • Expert-level Terraform.
  • Strong Kubernetes expertise.
  • Hands-on experience with a service mesh in production, ideally Istio.
  • You are comfortable with envoy-based traffic management, mTLS, authorization policy, and mesh observability, and you can debug problems that cross the mesh boundary.

Compensation

  • At Carbon, we look at the person holistically and carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining salary.

Company info

  • At Carbon, our mission goes beyond 3D printing.
  • We are enabling creators everywhere to make what the world needs, right now.
  • At Carbon, we look at the person holistically and carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining salary.

This listing is sourced directly from Carbon, Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.