# Staff/Principal Security Engineer (U. S. Air Force) at Skylight Health

- Company: Skylight Health
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://skylight.health
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $90K to $125K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skylighthq/jobs/4736055005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/skylight-health-staff-principal-security-engineer-u-s-air-force/

## About the role

At Skylight, security engineers stay up to date with the cutting edge of security and help teams implement new processes, tools, and remediations. They’re familiar with modern software development and work in cross-functional teams to inform and guide security best practices at all stages of the software development life cycle.

## What they're looking for

- Experience taking systems through RMF and ATO, ideally in a DoD context, including authoring the control implementation and body of evidence
- Able to detect risks by continually reviewing all aspects of the application for vulnerabilities and enumerating them
- Able to mitigate and prevent risks by proactively working with teams to build secure and compliant systems
- Familiarity with common sources of vulnerability information
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements regarding security and compliance
- Experience working in agile software development

Tags: Engineering