Skylight is looking to hire a Lead Software Engineer to help government agencies deliver better public services by modernizing their systems using design and technology.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on skills building services and APIs in a modern language and runtime, with clean, reliable, reusable code
- Experience with modern delivery — continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, code review, operating services in cloud environments
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (IaC) and environment automation
- Solid understanding of secure software practices and integrating compliance into delivery
- Working knowledge of data persistence and patterns for building resilient, observable services
- Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) or platform engineering
- Background in cloud and application modernization, integrations, or shared services at enterprise scale
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction for one or more products and platforms, from discovery through production operations
- Design and build services with an emphasis on reliability, security, and simplicity — favoring small, iterative releases
- Apply modern delivery practices — continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), trunk-based development, code review, automated testing
- Standardize environments with infrastructure as code (IaC) and policy as code to create secure, repeatable delivery
- Improve observability and service health with metrics, logs, and traces, and guide work with service level objectives (SLOs)
- Embed security and compliance from day one — integrate controls into pipelines and support continuous Authority to Operate (ATO) evidence
- Mentor engineers, facilitate technical design reviews, and model pragmatic, high-quality engineering practices
Other
- Track record leading engineering for complex, production systems and delivering measurable outcomes
- Commitment to capacity building — mentoring, documenting, and transferring knowledge so teams continue improving over time
- Ability to communicate clearly with executives and cross-functional teams in a professional services environment
- Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
- You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
