How difficult would finding a job in the US be for a mid-level SRE in Australia? And what would be a worthwhile wage in places like SV, NY, etc? /u/Mammoth_Loan_984 CSCQ protests reddit

I’ve 10 years experience mostly on the Linux & infrastructure side. The last few years I’ve been making a slow pivot into actual dev (SRE) work to facilitate this. Long-term I think I’d like to either become a platform engineer, or write code for commercial infrastructure-type tools. But I’m getting ahead of myself there.

Obviously I’m doing my own salary research based on location but was curious to get opinions here, too.

With the cost of living going up, and tech wages here being relatively low, I’m wondering whether it would be worth applying for a few jobs in tech hubs in the US and just bunker down for the rest of the decade, saving as much as possible.

I’ve lived overseas for most of my adult life so this is a semi-serious consideration.

I would need to kick off the E-3 VISA process, though I’d need a job offer first. My understanding of this process is that it will involve being thrown into a sand pit full of gladiator weapons, where I’ll be forced to fight several much smaller, weaker Indian H1B workers to the death. My concern here is they may work together and overwhelm me. Regardless, I am ready to embrace either a new life as an immigrant gypsie, or the sweet embrace of death as Ranjeet runs a trident through my torso and I bleed out on the stadium floor.

Is there anything fundamentally flawed with this idea?

I’ve 10 years experience mostly on the Linux & infrastructure side. The last few years I’ve been making a slow pivot into actual dev (SRE) work to facilitate this. Long-term I think I’d like to either become a platform engineer, or write code for commercial infrastructure-type tools. But I’m getting ahead of myself there.

Obviously I’m doing my own salary research based on location but was curious to get opinions here, too.

With the cost of living going up, and tech wages here being relatively low, I’m wondering whether it would be worth applying for a few jobs in tech hubs in the US and just bunker down for the rest of the decade, saving as much as possible.

I’ve lived overseas for most of my adult life so this is a semi-serious consideration.

I would need to kick off the E-3 VISA process, though I’d need a job offer first. My understanding of this process is that it will involve being thrown into a sand pit full of gladiator weapons, where I’ll be forced to fight several much smaller, weaker Indian H1B workers to the death. My concern here is they may work together and overwhelm me. Regardless, I am ready to embrace either a new life as an immigrant gypsie, or the sweet embrace of death as Ranjeet runs a trident through my torso and I bleed out on the stadium floor.

Is there anything fundamentally flawed with this idea?