Recorded Future is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join its 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, driving architectural improvements and ensuring the platform scales effectively.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or platform engineering
- Strong proficiency in Python, with experience in Go or Rust considered a plus
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with message queues and pub/sub systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or AWS RDS, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with data lake storage frameworks such as Delta Lake and graph databases such as AWS Neptune or Neo4j
- Experience developing REST APIs using frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI
- Proven experience architecting and delivering production-grade applications and ETL/ELT pipelines
- Strong understanding of building reliable data pipelines, including observability, error handling, and failure recovery
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions experience is a plus
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools; Terraform experience is a plus
- Comfort working with high-volume, complex, and unstructured data
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to debug both software and data issues
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work independently while delivering high-quality results
- Interest in or familiarity with security data domains such as threat infrastructure, malware, or network telemetry
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- 401K
