DevSecOps and applied AI engineering for federal and defense missions
Rackner is a Silver Spring-based engineering firm building secure, Kubernetes-based software and AI for federal civilian and defense customers. Its stack pairs PyTorch, Hugging Face and Ollama with Cesium and PostGIS, pointing to LLM-enabled, map-driven mission-planning tools, while Fortify, JFrog Xray and OWASP ZAP show supply-chain security baked into delivery. Hiring is accelerating and skews toward senior engineers.
Notable leadership hires: Technical Lead
Rackner, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, is a privately held services company with 51–200 employees. It delivers DevSecOps, cloud-native and hybrid-cloud development, edge computing and AI/ML engineering. Customers include federal agencies on both the civilian and defense sides, along with fast-growing startups. The company is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member and a HUBZone business, and it hires within the United States.
Rackner works with Python, Java, C++, TypeScript and React, runs on AWS, Kubernetes and OpenShift with Terraform and Ansible, and uses PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face and Ollama for AI, plus PostgreSQL/PostGIS and Cesium.
Job posts point to a secure mission-planning and decision-support platform, large language model deployment, map-based application features and secure backend services for defense mission planning.
Rackner is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and currently hires in the United States. It has 51–200 employees and was founded in 2015.
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