Helsing
Software Engineer, DevSecOps
Washington, DC · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in DevSecOps, security engineering, or infrastructure engineering with a security focus.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required.
About the job
Build and maintain secure developer-platform infrastructure and software delivery systems, automating security controls and compliance for product teams.
What you'll do
- Deploy, update, and secure Kubernetes workloads using ArgoCD and GitOps; maintain shared services and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement security controls and software supply-chain protections, including vulnerability scanning, SBOM generation, image signing, and provenance tracking.
- Support threat modeling, incident response, product-team compliance, and secure hosting of ML/AI workloads.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, security engineering, or infrastructure engineering with a security focus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Deep Kubernetes experience; proficiency with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tooling and strong experience maintaining Helm charts.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash; hands-on experience with security frameworks such as NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, or CMMC; U.S. citizenship required.
Nice to have
- Experience with Go or other systems programming languages; experience shepherding systems through an ATO process.
- Familiarity with DISA STIGs, RMF, Terraform, Nix/NixOS, SIEM, or securing ML/AI workloads.
Tools
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitOps, Helm, Python, Bash, AWS, Terraform
AI focus
Support secure hosting of ML/AI workloads, including model training environments and sensitive data handling.
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