Senior/Staff Software Engineer (U.S. Air Force)
Company: Skylight Digital
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $90,000 - $230,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-20
About this role
## 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, 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.
In this role, you'll partner with a mission-critical organization within the U.S. Air Force Special Operations community to design, build, deploy, and operate secure, scalable mobile systems that support highly specialized operations. You'll apply modern engineering and DevOps practices to ship mobile applications reliably and frequently, automate the infrastructure they depend on, and integrate with existing defense systems. Working in close collaboration with cross-functional teammates and government partners, you'll help modernize legacy environments while ensuring performance, security, and reliability at scale — from device to cloud.
## What you’ll do
- Engineer mobile software products (iOS, Android, and/or cross-platform) as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, code signing, and release of mobile applications across multiple environments (e.g., Fastlane, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitrise, App Center)
- Provision and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), with a preference for AWS GovCloud,...