# Staff/Principal Software Engineer, Consulting (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: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skylighthq/jobs/4733006005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/skylight-health-staff-principal-software-engineer-consulting-u-s-air-force/

## About the role

At Skylight, software engineers design, implement, and maintain software systems to improve government services for users. This software is built to meet the needs of regular users of government services as well as Skylight’s partners in government. A consulting software engineer focuses on advisory engagements where the deliverable is guidance, assessment, or technical strategy rather than delivering code.

## What they're looking for

- Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
- Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
- Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
- Experience evaluating existing systems and communicating technical findings and recommendations to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort holding architectural decision rights on a multi-vendor engagement, and making the tradeoffs legible to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in agile software development

Tags: Engineering