$142,500 – $256,500
Listed on Moderna’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- CI/CD
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Pulumi
- Python
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
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