# Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Hiring organization: [Moderna](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/moderna)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0dcff760-ee9b-4a63-9f12-fa4beb5157fe

Listed on Moderna's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Principal
- Salary: 142500 – 256500 USD per year

## Summary

This Principal Software Engineer role at Moderna focuses on building secure, reusable platform capabilities for AI development and enterprise software delivery, working across infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer experience. It suits experienced platform engineers comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on implementation who can drive adoption of standards across multiple engineering teams.

_Our summary, not Moderna's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CI/CD, Docker, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Python, Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation
- Deep experience designing and operating developer platforms or CI/CD systems
- Strong programming in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript
- Significant experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Significant AWS or equivalent cloud provider experience
- Docker and containerized applications experience
- Understanding of secure software development, supply chain security, and policy enforcement
- Ability to set technical direction and design balanced systems
- Experience leading technical initiatives across functional teams
- Proven mentoring and technical standard-raising ability
- Expert troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and platform layers
- Ability to adapt to ambiguous problems and work across varied platform engineering areas

## Nice to have

- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI gateway patterns
- Experience shaping platform strategy or roadmaps for multi-team adoption
- Experience partnering with security and architecture teams on shared standards
- Infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi, CDK, or Terraform
- Application or cloud security and supply chain controls experience
- Internal developer platforms, paved-road workflows, or shared engineering standards
- Kubernetes, container security, or secure runtime patterns
- Creating documentation and developer enablement materials

Apply on Moderna's site: https://modernatx.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/M_tx/job/Cambridge-Massachusetts/Principal-Software-Engineer--Platform-Engineering_R19427