# Principal Software Engineer, Lead (U.S. Air Force)

About Skylight Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world. If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters. About the job At Skylight, tech leads combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership across multiple teams. They set direction, guide engineering practices, and create the conditions for technical delivery that is secure, resilient, and scalable. We’re building a modernized Team Awareness Kit (TAK) application for the U.S. Air Force that works in a decentralized communications environment. The first release centers on push-to-talk with auto-transcribed transmission logs, secure direct and group messaging, offline maps, and user registration and login. The work may expand into other projects in the same portfolio. It’s full end-to-end product delivery for a tactical user base. You’ll set the technical direction for mapping

- **Id**: 4298695
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/skylight-principal-software-engineer-lead-u-s-air-force>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T23:29:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:35:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8287
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Professional development, Stock options, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 684855
- **Name**: Skylight
- **Domain**: skylighthq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/skylighthq>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 125000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 125000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Crossplane** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Dart** — Optional: yes
- **Flutter** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Offline-First** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **SQLite** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **WebRTC** — Optional: yes
- **WebSockets** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:35:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:11:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 125000
- **Is top pay**: no

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