Principal Software Engineer, MDR Platform at Harbor IT, LLC
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Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining a suite of Golang applications at the core of a managed detection and response platform. Day-to-day work spans a high-throughput log analytics engine, syslog server infrastructure, cross-platform security agents, and post-processing pipelines that feed threat intelligence to security operations analysts. The role suits an experienced Go developer comfortable making architectural decisions and mentoring others, with a background in security tooling or high-performance distributed systems being a plus.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,700–20,000
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).
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 (9)
The JD requires 6+ years of overall software engineering experience with at least 4+ years specifically in Go; the 4-year figure is set on the Go skill and 6 years is captured as the role-level minimum.
A Bachelor's degree in CS is listed under Required Qualifications but is immediately qualified by 'or equivalent practical experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
Compensation is described only as 'varies based on experience but in-line with or above market' — no numeric range is provided, so no comp figures are extracted.
AWS ECS/EC2 is cited as the example cloud target for Docker deployments; 'or equivalents' is noted, so Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives.
OpenSearch is listed alongside 'or similar' in the required section; Elasticsearch is the canonical near-equivalent and is listed as an alternative.
Python (3+ years preferred) and SIEM/EDR experience appear under the Preferred Qualifications section.
The posting embeds a hidden keyword ('haversine') as an applicant-screening device — noted here for awareness but not extracted as a skill or requirement.
The role involves building cross-platform security agents and a log analytics engine, confirming a software development (15-1252) classification over a systems/network administration one.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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