Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Seattle, Washington, United States
$131,200 - $196,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Senior DevSecOps Engineer role focuses on driving secure-by-design practices throughout application development and operations by acting as a security partner embedded within an engineering team. You will shift security left by translating requirements into working controls, secure defaults, and pipeline guardrails.
What you'll do
- Serve as a security advisor, advocating security requirements during sprint planning, architecture reviews, and design decisions.
- Build and maintain automated security testing and enforcement in CI/CD, including static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), secrets scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning.
- Manage cloud monitoring tooling for vulnerability and configuration management, and integrate patching and hardening into engineering operations.
- Audit application environments and development processes for compliance with internal and external requirements and security standard methodologies.
- Manage the company's software development life cycle policy alongside Information Security leadership.
- Implement and maintain cloud detection and response monitoring, and act as an incident CIRT responder.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering, or security engineering.
- Proficiency with CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).
- Cloud security experience in AWS and/or Azure, including identity and access management, containerization, network security controls, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
- Experience implementing automated application and infrastructure security testing, secrets management, and policy-as-code enforcement.
- Familiarity with penetration testing applications or experience conducting penetration testing engagements.
- Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and integration.
Skills: DevOps, CI/CD, cloud security, application security testing, secrets management
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
180
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$233k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Impinj | All employers we track in this specialty (180 roles · 48 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 180 |
| Median days open | 2 d | 58 d (−56 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $233k |
Skills observed across this category: DevOps, CI/CD, cloud security, application security testing, secrets management
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 30 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 101 d
- Qualcomm · 19 open roles · median 115 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 95 d
- STMicroelectronics · 12 open roles · median 13 d
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 37 d
How we counted: 180 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 48 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.