Principal Software Engineer (REF# AT0630)
Convera
$197,000–$207,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on architecting and building distributed, scalable enterprise systems — including responsive front-end interfaces, event-driven back-end services, and cloud-hosted applications. Day-to-day work spans technical leadership across the product lifecycle, security threat modeling, SQL performance tuning, and production support. The role suits an experienced engineer with a broad full-stack background across .NET, Angular/React, messaging platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,000–9,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title says 'Principal' but the requirements — 8 years of experience, a bachelor's degree, and a well-defined feature-team scope — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor, not a true org-wide Principal. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
Angular and React are both listed as hard requirements under the same responsive-UI bullet; they are treated as distinct, co-required skills rather than interchangeable alternatives, since the JD lists them together as a combined stack requirement.
Kafka and RabbitMQ are listed as examples of message broker mechanisms; Kafka is captured as the primary skill with RabbitMQ as an alternative, reflecting that either satisfies the requirement.
AWS and Azure are listed together ('AWS/Azure'); either satisfies the cloud requirement, so Azure is captured as an alternative to AWS.
Threat modeling tools (Fortify, Checkmarx, Blackduck, Qualys) are listed as examples; Fortify is the primary with the others as alternatives.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Applications, or a related field — no 'or equivalent experience' language is present, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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