Remote AI-Driven DevSecOps Engineer (R&D)

Rackner; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Remote-work support

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

Wellness perks

Job summary

Rackner seeks a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer to build mission-focused applications and secure pipelines for government customers. The role spans software engineering, AI tooling, and platform modernization, with hands-on coding and governance for AI agents in secure environments.

You will implement backend services, AI-enabled workflows, and CI/CD controls while ensuring auditability, security, and compliance across the development lifecycle in a remote-capable setting.

Qualifications

• Proven Python development experience.
• Backend/API development experience.
• Experience with generative AI, LLMs, and AI-assisted development.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, automated testing, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of secure coding, code review, debugging, and software supply-chain security.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services, APIs, data workflows, and AI-enabled applications.
• Develop model-agnostic coding agents and LLM workflows with human approval, prompt history, auditability, and controlled tool access.
• Enforce architecture, UX, cybersecurity, testing, and deployment standards through automated policies and CI/CD controls.
• Generate and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API documentation, and software bills of materials.
• Use AI-assisted analysis to assess and modernize application portfolios through replatforming, refactoring, retirement, preservation, or API wrapping.
• Integrate human- and AI-generated code into automated quality, functional, security, accessibility, and compliance testing.
• Build hardened AI development environments using approved tools, isolated execution, restricted permissions, and secure containers or virtual machines.
• Develop Platform One-compatible workflows that enforce Iron Bank images, approved cloud services, and Party Bus deployment requirements.
• Connect user feedback, behavior telemetry, logs, metrics, and platform context to agents that identify issues and prepare reviewed pull requests.
• Build platform-security automation that finds vulnerabilities and configuration risks, recommend fixes, and produces compliance evidence.
• Collaborate with software, platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams to move R&D prototypes toward operational use.

Skills

Python

Backend API development

Generative AI

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security testing

IaC

Software architecture

Tools

OpenCode

Codex

Claude Code

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Rackner seeks a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer to build mission-focused applications and secure pipelines for government customers. The role spans software engineering, AI tooling, and platform modernization, with hands-on coding and governance for AI agents in secure environments.

You will implement backend services, AI-enabled workflows, and CI/CD controls while ensuring auditability, security, and compliance across the development lifecycle in a remote-capable setting.