Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rackner builds mission-critical systems for the U.S. government across software engineering, AI/ML, DevSecOps, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and application modernization. The company is seeking a Software/AI Developer & DevSecOps Engineer to build mission-focused applications, AI-enabled development tools, and secure software-delivery pipelines for government and defense customers. The role involves software engineering, generative AI, application modernization, and DevSecOps in secure government environments.
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, recommends fixes, and produces compliance evidence
- Collaborate with software, platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams to move R&D prototypes toward operational use
Skills
- 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
- Active Secret clearance or higher
- Experience with Platform One, Party Bus, Big Bang, Iron Bank, or DoD software factories
- Experience with OpenCode, Codex, Claude Code, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar agentic-development tools
- Experience with FastAPI, Prefect, Temporal, PostgreSQL, vector databases, or event-driven systems
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Helm, Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Argo CD
- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, RMF, DISA STIGs, CMMC, cATO, or other DoD cybersecurity requirements
- Experience with SAST, DAST, SBOM generation, dependency scanning, observability, or automated remediation
- Experience modernizing legacy systems or developing software for classified, disconnected, or constrained environments
- Experience supporting defense, C2, ISR, mission planning, autonomy, or other national security missions
Benefits
- Company-supported technical certifications
- Clear advancement and leadership opportunities
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Home-office equipment and remote-work support
- Fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly pay and team events
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