Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States; local candidates must work in the office at least four days per week.

Salary: $125,000–$165,000 per year

Company

Takt builds a warehouse intelligence platform that unifies labor, automation, and robotics data for 3PLs, retailers, and e-commerce companies.

What you will do

• Own and evolve Terraform configurations for application, customer, and DevOps infrastructure.
• Manage Google Cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, networking, IAM, and production environments.
• Design and operate multi-region deployments for reliability, performance, availability, and data locality.
• Build and optimize GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, release processes, observability, secrets management, and security scanning.
• Maintain SOC 2 and GDPR compliance through Vanta and keep the organization audit-ready.
• Lead incident management, on-call health, postmortems, and follow-up actions using incident.io or a similar platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and production infrastructure as code.
• Strong Google Cloud or comparable cloud experience, including Kubernetes, networking, and IAM.
• Experience with multi-region deployments, availability, failover, data locality, and CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with a security mindset covering least privilege, secrets hygiene, and supply-chain risks.
• Comfort reading and writing Go or TypeScript; experience with BigQuery, Dataflow, and incident management platforms is required or relevant to the role.

Nice to have

• Vanta experience.
• Prior startup experience or experience owning an entire technical domain.
• Curiosity about logistics, warehousing, and physical operations.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-forward engineering environment with a monthly budget for AI tools such as Claude and Cursor.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• MacBook Pro, dual 4K monitors, and a choice of keyboard and mouse for the office desk.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Hiring process

• Two phone screens.
• Onsite interview at the Reston office with four to five interviews.