Recorded Future

Recorded Future

Principal Software Engineer

Boston, MA · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$152k-$229kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role

  • With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
  • The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,000-$228,500.
  • Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

Responsibilities

  • Data Pipeline Ownership: Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that collect, transform, and deliver structured threat intelligence data powering the Security Intelligence Graph.
  • Architecture & Scalability: Drive meaningful architectural improvements across data and platform systems to ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Infrastructure & Deployment: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices to support efficient and repeatable deployments.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively across teams, geographies, and varying levels of technical expertise.
  • Experience developing REST APIs
  • Recorded Future is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering team, responsible for building and scaling the pipelines that power the Security Intelligence Graph.
  • As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work across application code and infrastructure to collect, transform, and deliver structured threat data: tracking malware infrastructure, phishing campaigns, spam networks, command-and-control systems, and more.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that collect, transform, and deliver structured threat intelligence data powering the Security Intelligence Graph.
  • Drive meaningful architectural improvements across data and platform systems to ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices to support efficient and repeatable deployments.

Requirements

  • Agencies must have a valid written agreement in place with Recorded Future's recruitment team and must receive written authorization before submitting resumes.
  • At least 5 years of experience in end to end software engineering, with additional experience in data engineering or platform engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with message queues and pub/sub systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Strong understanding of building reliable data pipelines, including observability, error handling, and failure recovery.
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with data lake storage frameworks such as Delta Lake and graph databases such as AWS Neptune or Neo4j.
  • Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or AWS RDS, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
  • GitHub Actions experience
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Terraform experience.
  • Experience or interest in cybersecurity data domains such as malware analysis, phishing detection, or network telemetry.
  • Experience working with graph-based data systems or security intelligence platforms.
  • Why should you join Recorded Future?

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,000-$228,500.

Company info

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  • We are committed to maintaining an environment that attracts and retains talent from a diverse range of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles.
  • By ensuring all feel included and respected for being unique and bringing their whole selves to work, Recorded Future is made a better place every day.
  • If you need any accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our recruiting team at careers@recordedfuture.com
  • Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
  • Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
  • Recorded Future will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.
  • Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
  • This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.
  • Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.
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