Remote R&D DevSecOps Engineer: AI-Driven Secure Software

Rackner, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certifications support

401(k) match

Comprehensive benefits

Generous PTO

Remote-work equipment

Wellness reimbursement

Weekly pay

Job summary

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer focused on R&D to build mission-focused applications and secure pipelines for government customers. You will work hands-on across software engineering, generative AI, and CI/CD, delivering auditable AI workflows and secure deployments.

You’ll develop backend services, AI-enabled tools, and platform-security automation while aligning with DoD cyber standards and Platform One requirements. Remote US-based role.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience, particularly with Python.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, or data-driven applications.
• Experience with generative AI, LLM applications, coding agents, or AI-assisted software development.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, automated testing, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of application architecture, secure coding, code review, debugging, and software supply-chain security.
• Ability to independently take an evolving technical problem from concept through implementation and demonstration.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a government security 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, cybersecurity, testing, and deployment standards through automated policies and CI/CD controls.
• Generate and maintain architecture diagrams, API docs, and software bills of materials.
• Use AI-assisted analysis to modernize application portfolios via replatforming, refactoring, retirement, preservation, or API wrapping.
• Integrate human- and AI-generated code into automated quality, security, and compliance testing.
• Build hardened AI development environments with approved tools, isolated execution, and secure containers or VMs.
• Develop Platform One-compatible workflows enforcing Iron Bank images and Party Bus deployment requirements.
• Link feedback, telemetry, logs, and metrics to agents that identify issues and prepare reviewed PRs.
• Create platform-security automation that finds vulnerabilities, suggests fixes, and produces compliance evidence.
• Collaborate with teams to move R&D prototypes toward operational use.

Skills

Python

Backend APIs

Generative AI

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Cloud-native

IaC / Infrastructure-as-code

Secure coding

Code review

Security clearance

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Terraform

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

PostgreSQL

Job description

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer focused on R&D to build mission-focused applications and secure pipelines for government customers. You will work hands-on across software engineering, generative AI, and CI/CD, delivering auditable AI workflows and secure deployments.

You’ll develop backend services, AI-enabled tools, and platform-security automation while aligning with DoD cyber standards and Platform One requirements. Remote US-based role.