G'Day, Australian here.

I was recently made redundant working at Atlassian and, in that role, was working on some really interesting low-ish level problems - like working on a JavaScript runtime, bundlers, and building a custom FaaS platform.

I've been looking around the Australian job market and while there are a lot of opportunities, the vast majority are just Node.js / React CRUD apps.

There's nothing wrong with that type of work, but the heart yearns for technically challenging domains that impact users from the foundations and I feel like I have so much more to give than debugging React hooks for a CRM platform.

I have found that pretty much all of the roles for anything interesting are in the US.

I've tried reaching out to US based recruiters on Linkedin but have been entirely ghosted.

Is it a dead end trying to hunt down US roles as an Australian? Would I need to move to the states to even have a shot?