Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Enhance and evolve shared frameworks, reusable services, and CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, secure, repeatable delivery
• Champion secure coding practices, zerotrust principles, and compliance with federal cybersecurity frameworks

• 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

• 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: 3-6 years; senior: 7+ years)
• Strong proficiency in modern languages such as Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/Type Script
• Solid…