DevSecOps Platform Engineer: Build Secure DevTools in AWS

RXinsider LTD.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 109,200 - 174,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive healthcare

Well-being resources

Family planning benefits

Generous paid time off

Savings and investments

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Moderna is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Software Engineer to build and evolve the foundations that help application teams develop, deploy, and operate software effectively. This is an individual contributor role that collaborates with Builders to provide scalable, secure, and user-focused platform capabilities, expanding across cloud, deployment, and production operations.

You will improve developer experience, manage internal services and cloud infrastructure in AWS, enhance CI/CD pipelines,

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 across platform engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation for developer platform services using Python/TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Docker, AWS, JFrog, and other vendor APIs.
• Partner with application teams to migrate workloads onto standard platform capabilities.
• Onboard repositories and teams, validate behavior, improve workflows, and document remediation paths.
• Create and maintain developer remote workspace infrastructure, templates, container configurations, base images, development tools, and onboarding documentation.
• Improve reliability and usability through monitoring, alerting, runbooks, dashboards, and support automation.
• Write clear internal documentation, examples, and paved-road guides for builders.
• Identify recurring developer pain points and contribute improvements to shared frameworks, templates, and platform tooling.
• Participate in operational support for owned platforms while reducing toil through automation.
• Enable AI-assisted development across the platform (e.g., integrating MCP-style capabilities, packaging internal tools, and improving developer experience with AI tools).

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Pulumi

Docker

DevSecOps mindset

Developer tooling

Tools

JFrog Artifactory

Nexus

GitHub Packages

Job description

Moderna is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Software Engineer to build and evolve the foundations that help application teams develop, deploy, and operate software effectively. This is an individual contributor role that collaborates with Builders to provide scalable, secure, and user-focused platform capabilities, expanding across cloud, deployment, and production operations.

You will improve developer experience, manage internal services and cloud infrastructure in AWS, enhance CI/CD pipelines,