Overview
Join a team where innovation meets mission. Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with purpose.
We’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for six straight years and named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming home for those looking to grow and contribute to positive change. We encourage all employees to expand beyond their boundaries, dive into important world-changing Federal challenges.
Position Summary
We are actively seeking Software Engineers to design, build, and evolve high-impact, mission-critical platforms supporting federal customers.
In this role, you will contribute to and own complex features end-to-end, influence architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, and help shape engineering standards and best practices across Credence. This is a hands-on role for engineers who enjoy solving hard problems at scale while operating in secure, regulated environments.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below
Software Development & Delivery
- Contribute to and lead end-to-end software development activities including architecture, design reviews, implementation, automated testing, optimization, deployment, and post-production monitoring
- Enhance shared frameworks, reusable services, and platform components, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, container orchestration, and cloud-native runtime environments
- Champion engineering excellence and modern development patterns, leveraging Credence’s accelerators to enhance delivery quality and ensure projects are executed on time and within scope.
Architecture & Technical Strategy
- Build scalable, secure, and resilient application components, independently owning complex features and cross-cutting architectural concerns
- Drive design discussions, technical roadmaps, and modernization initiatives, balancing performance, cost, scalability, security, and maintainability
- Translate complex mission, security, and regulatory requirements into scalable and maintainable software solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
System Reliability, Testing & Validation
- Conduct root‑cause analysis across distributed systems, diagnosing issues that span application, infrastructure, and pipeline layers to protect uptime and mission continuity.
- Establish robust testing and observability practices to ensure high-quality releases and maintain customer trust.
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide technical leadership across engineering initiatives, guiding design decisions, architecture reviews, and coding standards.
- Mentor junior engineers through coaching and structured feedback, promoting a culture of continuous learning and collaborative problem-solving.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Partner with product managers, engineering, security stakeholders, and federal customers to align technical execution with mission outcomes.
- Work directly with federal customers to understand requirements and translate operational needs into technical solutions.
Platform, Tooling & DevSecOps Excellence
- Enhance and evolve shared frameworks, reusable services, and CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, secure, repeatable delivery.
- Champion secure coding practices, zero‑trust principles, and compliance with federal cybersecurity frameworks.
Innovation & Thought Leadership
- Stay current with advancements in AI and engineering practices and technologies, incorporating relevant innovations where they add clear value to the platform and mission.
- Contribute to the evolution of Credence’s engineering maturity and best practices.
Requirements
- US Citizenship with ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret clearance (Active Secret preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent hands‑on experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience. Mid-level engineers (3-6 years); Senior engineers (7+ years).
- Strong proficiency in modern languages such as Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and scalable software architecture
- Hands‑on experience building RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud‑native applications (containerized or event‑driven)
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including automation, IAM, networking, and compute services
- Practical DevOps/DevSecOps skills with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar tools
- Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills, with ability to influence engineering direction and support production systems in fast-paced, mission-critical environments
Preferred:
- Experience supporting production systems in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., federal, defense, healthcare, or financial systems) is a plus.
- Familiarity with security frameworks or compliance processes (such as NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, or Zero Trust concepts).
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical blogs, internal engineering communities, or formal mentorship programs
Why This Role & Why Credence
- Build mission‑critical tech: Work directly with federal customers to understand operational problems and deploy AI solutions that demonstrably improve mission outcomes
- Grow your career fast in a Top Workplace with strong mentorship and real engineering ownership.
- Work in a values‑driven culture focused on servant leadership, high performance, and delivering measurable outcomes for our customers.
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Wellness Resources
Top Skills
What We Do
Credence provides innovative technology, health, international development, engineering, and management solutions to support mission-critical programs for Federal government customers. We are one of the nation’s largest privately held government contractors.
Our ability to perform exceptionally to implement new solutions, efficiencies, and savings across 220 U.S. Government programs is due to our obsession with exceeding customer expectations and our emphasis on employee wellbeing—best exemplified by our corporate philosophy: “One Measure of Success. Yours.”
WHY WORK WITH CREDENCE? We are consistently rated as a Top Workplace and are proud to be one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the U.S. over the last decade.
Credence treats each customer, teaming partner, and employee as a trusted partner whom we serve. We ensure successful outcomes by focusing on the measure of success that we consider to be most important—Yours.
WHY WORK FOR CREDENCE? We are a diverse, enthusiastic team of professionals who are dedicated to providing exceptional service to our customers. Our culture is focused on employee empowerment, recognition, and reward, and each person is encouraged to take initiative and strive to reach their greatest potential.
HOW CREDENCE GIVES BACK: We believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work through corporate charitable events, support for employee volunteering, and a 100% corporate match for employee charitable giving.
