Software Engineer, DevSecOps

Overview

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. This DevSecOps Software Engineer role shapes the engineering foundations powering Moderna’s software ecosystem, working with global teams across a broad pipeline to build a career that makes a real difference for patients.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve automation that powers Moderna’s internal developer platform using Python, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Docker, AWS, JFrog, and a variety of vendor APIs.
• Collaborate with application engineering teams (“Builders”) to migrate workloads onto standardized, secure platform capabilities.
• Support the migration and ongoing management of existing DevOps tooling by onboarding repositories and engineering teams, validating platform behavior, improving developer workflows, and documenting remediation paths.
• Design, build, and maintain developer remote workspace infrastructure, reusable templates, container configurations, base images, development tooling, and onboarding documentation that enable teams to become productive quickly.
• Improve platform reliability and operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and automation that reduces operational toil.
• Develop clear internal documentation, implementation examples, and guidance that enables engineering teams to adopt platform capabilities consistently.
• Identify recurring developer challenges and continuously improve shared frameworks, reusable templates, automation, and platform tooling to enhance engineering productivity.
• Participate in operational support for owned platform services while automating repetitive operational activities.
• Help expand AI‑assisted software development by integrating MCP‑style capabilities, packaging internal engineering tools, supporting AI agents, and improving developer experience through modern AI‑powered workflows.
• Contribute across the complete software lifecycle—from design and implementation through cloud infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, and production operations—while continually expanding your technical expertise.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or a related role.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating solutions in AWS.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for production systems.
• Interest in developer tooling, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and secure software delivery.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code review, version control, and system design.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing team priorities and contribute across a range of platform engineering responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with artifact repositories such as JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or GitHub Packages.
• Experience with security scanning tools, dependency management, code scanning, or vulnerability remediation workflows.
• Comfort partnering with multiple engineering teams and influencing adoption through strong technical execution.

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Holistic well‑being support, including fitness, mindfulness, and mental health resources.
• Family‑building benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Generous paid time off (vacation, holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, discretionary shutdown).
• Savings and investment plans to help plan for the future.
• Location‑specific perks and extras.

Equal Opportunity and Reasonable Accommodation

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and non‑discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in the hiring process or to perform the essential functions of the position should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com.