Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform Engineering

The Role:

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. Work with exceptional global teams on a broad pipeline and build a career that makes a real difference for patients.

Moderna is strengthening its international business services hub in Warsaw supporting our growing global operations. We welcome professionals ready to help advance our mission and shape the future of mRNA medicines.

This is an opportunity to shape the developer platform that powers the next generation of Modernas software engineering ecosystem. As a Senior Software Engineer within Developer Platform Engineering you will design and build secure scalable platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to develop deploy and operate software efficiently while meeting the highest standards for security and governance. Working across cloud infrastructure platform engineering automation developer experience and AI-assisted development you will help create reusable paved-road solutions that accelerate innovation across Modernas rapidly expanding technology landscape.

Heres What Youll Do:

• Design build and evolve secure developer platform capabilities using Python or TypeScript/JavaScript GitHub Actions Pulumi Docker AWS and internal and third-party APIs.

• Build and mature governed cloud development workspace capabilities including secure workspace patterns using platforms such as Coder devcontainers approved base images identity controls secrets management and controlled network access.

• Create reusable templates documentation reference implementations and standardized paved-road patterns that enable application teams to rapidly adopt secure compliant development environments.

• Partner directly with software engineers and application teams to standardize development environments streamline onboarding and increase adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

• Continuously improve the developer experience by reducing environment setup time eliminating repetitive manual work standardizing engineering workflows and making secure-by-default development practices easy to consume.

• Build operational excellence into owned platform services through monitoring alerting dashboards runbooks automation and proactive support capabilities.

• Establish and continuously improve operational practices for developer platforms including service ownership platform lifecycle management incident response support models and ongoing reliability improvements.

• Collaborate closely with Cybersecurity Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture and application engineering teams to translate security and technical requirements into practical automated platform controls that minimize developer friction.

• Identify recurring developer pain points and transform them into reusable frameworks platform tooling engineering templates and scalable paved-road solutions.

• Support governed AI-assisted software development by integrating approved Generative AI tools into secure development environments reusable templates documentation and standardized engineering workflows.

• Contribute across the broader Builder Tools & Platforms portfolio supporting initiatives spanning developer tooling secure software delivery internal engineering frameworks platform automation and enterprise engineering standards.

• Work across the full lifecycle of platform engineeringfrom architecture and design through implementation cloud infrastructure CI/CD pipelines production operations developer enablement and secure software delivery.

• Help transform emerging engineering needs into reliable reusable governed platform capabilities that enable Modernas Builders to innovate safely and at scale.

As an individual contributor you will play a highly visible role partnering directly with engineering teams to influence how software is built across Moderna. Your work will combine deep technical expertise with hands-on platform engineering enabling developers to focus on delivering impactful solutions while benefiting from secure scalable and thoughtfully designed engineering platforms.

The key Moderna Mindsets youll need to succeed in the role:

• We behave like owners. The solutions were building go beyond any job description.

• We digitize everywhere possible using the power of code to maximize our impact on patients.

Heres What Youll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

• 7 years of experience in software engineering platform engineering DevOps developer tooling infrastructure automation or a related role.

• Very strong software engineering experience implementing and maintaining developer platforms internal tools infrastructure automation CI/CD systems secure development environments or secure software delivery platforms.

• Very strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript.

• Significant experience with GitHub GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows and modern software delivery practices.

• Significant experience with AWS or another cloud provider for deploying and managing applications or developer platform services.

• Experience with Docker devcontainers containerized applications or standardized development environments.

• Strong understanding of secure software development practices software supply chain dependency management artifact management secrets handling and policy enforcement.

• Proven ability to design and implement systems that balance security standardization usability reliability and developer productivity.

• Proven experience leading technical initiatives with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Expert troubleshooting skills across application code build pipelines cloud infrastructure networking identity developer tooling and third-party platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing team priorities and contribute across a range of platform engineering responsibilities including areas outside immediate prior experience.

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi CDK Terraform or similar.

• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms remote development workspaces devcontainer standards scaffolding systems CLIs templates or paved-road engineering standards.

• Experience with Coder GitHub Codespaces Dev Containers cloud development environments or similar developer workspace technologies.

• Experience building reusable GitHub Actions workflows platform automation developer onboarding flows or internal engineering enablement tooling.

• Experience with Kubernetes container security base image lifecycle management secrets management network isolation or endpoint/development environment controls.

• Experience with artifact repositories such as JFrog Artifactory Nexus GitHub Packages or similar.

• Experience with application security platforms software supply chain controls vulnerability management workflows or secure CI/CD guardrails.

• Experience enabling AI-assisted development through approved tools governed workspace patterns internal developer context or safe automation workflows.

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.

• Competitive healthcare plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being with access to fitness mindfulness and mental health support
• Family building benefits including fertility adoption and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off including vacation bank holidays volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savingsandinvestments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform theinfrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission values and mindsets every day our peopleare the driving force behind our scientific progress and our we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

As we build our company we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation teamwork and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn contribute and make a meaningful impact.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit to learn more about our current opportunities.

Moderna is a smoke-free alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons 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.

Were focused on attracting retaining developing and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences backgrounds and ideas we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at .

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