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Principal Software Engineer

Recorded Future· MA R&D
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Washington, DC$152k - $228.5kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer at Recorded Future responsible for designing, building, and scaling data pipelines and infrastructure powering the Security Intelligence Graph, driving architectural improvements and ensuring platform scalability.

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.
  • Full-Stack Engineering: Work across both application code and infrastructure, contributing to backend services, data systems, and platform capabilities.
  • Data Processing & Analysis: Apply statistical techniques to large-scale datasets to generate accurate and impactful insights.
  • Reliability & Observability: Ensure production-grade pipeline reliability through strong observability, error handling, and failure recovery practices.
  • 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.
  • Technical Leadership: Engage with technical leaders across teams and contribute to raising the engineering bar through knowledge sharing and best practices.

Qualifications

  • 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 proficiency in Python, with experience in Go or Rust considered a plus.
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM fundamentals.
  • Experience developing REST APIs
  • 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.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Data pipeline design and developmentMessaging systemsPythonCloud infrastructureREST APIsETL/ELT pipelinesObservability & reliabilityCI/CD & IaC
Nice to have:Go or RustSecurity data domain familiarity

Benefits

  • Incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K.
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Recorded Future

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