Senior Software Engineer, DevSecOps

TAKT; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Unlimited PTO

AI tools budget

MacBook Pro setup with dual monitors

Job summary

Takt is seeking a senior DevSecOps engineer in Reston, VA to own infrastructure, security posture, and developer experience behind our high-availability platform used by major retailers.

You will design multi-region deployments, manage Terraform and Google Cloud, and drive CI/CD and compliance with SOC 2 and GDPR while collaborating with CTO and Director of Engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience across DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep, hands-on Terraform experience managing production infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience operating Google Cloud, including Kubernetes, networking, and IAM.
• Experience designing or operating multi-region deployments and reasoning about availability and failover.
• A track record of building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines at scale, ideally on GitHub Actions.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 and GDPR, and experience keeping an organization audit-ready; Vanta experience is a plus.
• Security mindset applied by default: least privilege, secrets hygiene, supply-chain awareness, and pragmatic risk trade-offs.
• Ownership and drive: you take ambiguity and run with it, communicate clearly, and leave systems better documented than you found them.

Responsibilities

• Own our infrastructure as code: manage and evolve the Terraform configurations that define our application, customer, and DevOps platforms.
• Manage our Google Cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, networking, IAM, and the services that support production and pre-production environments.
• Design and operate multi-region deployments for reliability and performance in facilities that run 24/7.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD on GitHub Actions: reusable workflows, faster builds, safer releases, and a deploy process engineers trust.
• Own our compliance program in Vanta, maintaining SOC 2 and GDPR requirements and ensuring ongoing compliance as the platform and team grow.
• Enable the engineering team with tools to better manage, deploy, secure, and monitor code, from observability to secrets management to security scanning.
• Own incident management through incident.io: response process, on-call health, postmortems, and the follow-through that prevents repeat incidents.

Skills

Terraform

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

SOC 2

GDPR

Security mindset

Ownership

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Git

Job description

About Takt

Takt is a warehouse intelligence platform that unifies labor, automation, and robotics data so 3PLs, retailers, and e-commerce companies can run more efficient operations. Warehouses generate enormous amounts of data and most of it never reaches the people doing the work. We build the software that closes that gap, giving supervisors and frontline employees the information they need, when they need it, on the floor where decisions actually get made. Our software runs every shift, every day, in real facilities for leading brands including Macy's, Target, Stitch Fix, Flexport, ODW Logistics, and CarParts.com.

About the role

Warehouses don't stop, and neither does our platform. We're hiring a senior DevSecOps engineer to own the infrastructure, security posture, and developer experience behind a system that customers depend on around the clock. You'll be responsible for how Takt builds, deploys, secures, and monitors software, and you'll have the authority to change what isn't working.

This is a senior role with broad ownership. Our engineering team is small and works together to solve problems; you'll work directly with our CTO and Director of Engineering, and the platforms and tooling you build will multiply what every other engineer can ship. You'll take ambiguous, high-stakes problems, from a compliance finding to a flaky deploy pipeline to a multi-region failover design, and drive them to done.

What you'll do

• Own our infrastructure as code: manage and evolve the Terraform configurations that define our application, customer, and DevOps platforms.
• Manage our Google Cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, networking, IAM, and the services that support production and pre-production environments.
• Design and operate multi-region deployments for reliability and performance in facilities that run 24/7.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD on GitHub Actions: reusable workflows, faster builds, safer releases, and a deploy process engineers trust.
• Own our compliance program in Vanta, maintaining SOC 2 and GDPR requirements and ensuring ongoing compliance as the platform and team grow.
• Enable the engineering team with tools to better manage, deploy, secure, and monitor code, from observability to secrets management to security scanning.
• Own incident management through incident.io: response process, on-call health, postmortems, and the follow-through that prevents repeat incidents.

How we build

We're an AI-forward engineering team. Every engineer gets a monthly AI tools budget for Claude, Cursor, and whatever else makes you better, and we expect you to use it. AI-assisted development isn't a shortcut here; it's how we work. As a senior engineer, you'll help set the standard for using these tools well: reviewing generated code critically, understanding what ships under your name, and building guardrails so the whole team can move fast safely.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional experience across DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep, hands-on Terraform experience managing production infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience operating Google Cloud (or a comparable cloud at depth), including Kubernetes, networking, and IAM.
• Experience designing or operating multi-region deployments and reasoning about availability, failover, and data locality.
• A track record of building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines at scale, ideally on GitHub Actions.
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR, and experience keeping an organization audit-ready; Vanta experience is a plus.
• A security mindset applied by default: least privilege, secrets hygiene, supply-chain awareness, and pragmatic risk trade-offs.
• Ownership and drive: you take ambiguity and run with it, communicate clearly, and leave systems better documented than you found them.

Nice to have

• Comfort reading and writing Go or TypeScript; our backend is Go and our frontend is Vue, Nuxt, and TypeScript.
• Experience with data infrastructure such as BigQuery and Dataflow.
• Experience running incident management with incident.io or a similar platform.
• Prior startup experience, or comfort being the owner of a domain rather than one of many.
• Curiosity about logistics, warehousing, or how physical operations actually run.

Compensation & benefits

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• A monthly AI tools budget for every engineer.
• A top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, dual 4K monitors, and your choice of keyboard and mouse at your desk in the office.

Interview process

Two phone screens, followed by an onsite in our Reston office with four to five interviews. We'll keep you informed at every step; no black holes.

Location

Takt is based in Reston, VA, with our office located next to the Wiehle-Reston East Metro station on the Silver Line. We're looking for local candidates who can be in the office at least four days a week; we build together.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Our commitment

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Takt's values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a supportive place to work. Takt will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits of employment.