Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

Role Overview

Harbor IT is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Golang) to help lead development of its MDR (Managed Detection and Response) platform. This is a high-impact technical role where you co-own and evolve the core systems that power cybersecurity operations for customers, with a path to grow into technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Platform Development & Ownership (Go)

• Co-own and maintain multiple Golang applications forming the core of the MDR platform.
• Log Analytics Engine: Maintain and enhance a high-performance engine that analyzes events from thousands of sources across hundreds of customers.
• Post-Processing Programs: Maintain and enhance programs that convert engine output into actionable threat intelligence for SOC analysts.
• Secure Multi-tenant syslog server cluster: Maintain and enhance a cluster that receives, buffers, and feeds syslog-formatted logs to the analytics engine.
• Syslog agent: Maintain and enhance a cross-platform syslog agent that forwards syslog-formatted logs to the engine.
• Quadrant MDR Agent: Build and maintain a cross-platform security agent to secure and provide visibility into customer endpoints and servers.

Technical Leadership

• Make architectural decisions across multiple applications.
• Influence technical design discussions and participate in code reviews.
• Mentor and guide other developers; facilitate knowledge transfer during transition periods (including training and hiring support).
• Develop and maintain internal SOPs and software development best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define, design, and ship new features.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years focused on Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Portfolio of production systems and/or open-source contributions.

Go / Engineering Skills

• Idiomatic Golang with strong familiarity of the standard library and package ecosystem.
• Expertise managing goroutine lifecycles, channel-based communication, and using context for deadlines, timeouts, and cancellation.
• Thread-safe data structures/methods for shared state.
• Solid understanding of Go paradigms including interfaces and generics.
• Experience implementing worker pool patterns.
• Strong memory management: minimizing heap allocations, runtime profiling to find memory leaks, and pre-allocation strategies.

Deployment, Data, and Security

• Continuous deployment experience using GitHub Actions to deploy Docker containers to cloud infrastructure such as AWS ECS/EC2 (or equivalents).
• Deep proficiency with Redis and OpenSearch (or similar) plus SQL databases, including query performance and atomicity.

Nice-to-have / Additional

• No explicit nice-to-haves provided in the text.