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US
$90K–$230K
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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.
At Skylight, epidemiologists play a critical role in improving the digital infrastructure that powers public health. In this role, you’ll work across teams to make sure the information systems we co-develop with our government partners are firmly grounded in applied public health practice.
We work with a team at CDC that builds and maintains an integrated disease surveillance system used by state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments across the country. It gives jurisdictions case management for a wide range of conditions, and a secure path for moving epidemiologic, laboratory, and clinical data to CDC. Our role is to modernize it — a cloud-based platform designed to improve scalability, security, and adaptability to evolving public health needs.
You’ll be a primary source of epidemiology expertise for the teams building that platform, solving ad hoc problems as they surface and taking a systematic lens to where the work is headed overall. Your job is to keep evolving features, user experience, and data models aligned with public health policy, case surveillance and investigation workflows, and what health departments actually need from their data.
The work runs on two tracks at once: building out the modernized, cloud-based platform while the long-standing legacy version stays in production for the jurisdictions that depend on it. You’ll be part of a small team of epidemiologists providing niche subject matter expertise to both internal and external partners. With STLT health departments, that means sharing the guidance they need to carry out public health surveillance. Internally, it means working with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers — bringing public health practice into technical decisions, and translating in both directions.
Important: Don’t meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We’d still love to hear from you. If you’re excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.
This is a full-time, exempt position.
This is a fully remote position.
This role may require occasional or regular travel based on company, client, or contract needs.
The salary range for this position is between $130,000 and $165,000, based on experience and qualifications.
Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:
Our process includes a preliminary screen, a skills interview, a behavioral interview, and a reverse interview where you meet your potential team — usually four conversations across two to three weeks. Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:
If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital.
We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
401(k) / Retirement Plan
401(k) Match
Stock Options
Performance Bonus
PTO / Vacation
Paid Holidays
Flexible Schedule
Home Office Stipend
Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Defined Career Pathways
Employee Referral Bonus
Employee Recognition Awards
Charity Matching
Nearly all of them. Skylight is remote-first, and its current openings are almost entirely remote positions open across the United States. The exception is occasional client-site work: one current product role is based in Washington, DC to be near a federal client.
Yes, and unusually thoroughly. Job postings include the full salary ladder by career level rather than a single range. The published software engineering ladder runs from $90,000 at the Associate level to $230,000 at Principal, and your level is determined through the company's public Career Pathways framework.
No. All open roles are listed in the United States, and postings require U.S. citizenship for employment, a standard requirement for Skylight's federal government contracting work.
A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of salary with no vesting period, flexible paid time off (generally around 25 days per year) plus 11 paid federal holidays, up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new birth, adoption, or foster parents, a $2,000 annual professional development budget, and a $750 annual tech budget.
People motivated by public service and civic tech, since the work centers on government programs. In hiring, Skylight says it looks for a growth mindset, excellent communication skills, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity rather than perfection. All screenings and interviews happen via videoconference.
Yes. Skylight runs paid internships lasting 2 to 3 months and paid apprenticeships lasting 12 months or more, and both can lead to full-time roles.
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