Senior Software Engineer

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company

We're looking for an exceptional backend developer to join Recorded Future's Backend Services team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work alongside a talented group of engineers who are passionate about building distributed systems, working with rich and complex data, and designing elegant APIs. Our team owns core parts of the platform, including both internal and external APIs, data indexing, the Intelligence Graph data model, and key pieces of our code infrastructure. We aim to make our data as actionable and comprehensive as possible, while also having fun along the way.

In this role, you'll help develop high-quality software in a fast-moving environment, working close to our global clients and their needs. Together, we'll evolve our product to meet growing demands, with a strong focus on scalability and quality. You'll also have opportunities to experiment with new technologies and explore solutions to real-world challenges in threat analytics. You'll be part of a dynamic, curious, and collaborative team that loves taking on new challenges.

• Solve exciting and complex problems with diverse scope related to vast data volumes, real-time analysis, and threat intelligence
• Work together with our product teams to understand and deliver expected results
• Continuously design, develop and deploy backend services with focus on high availability, great quality, low latency and scalability
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• Measure and evaluate features and system metrics to continuously improve data quality and service performance
• Support DevOps activities
• Take initiatives and collaborate across teams
• Be proactive, go beyond expectations

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience handling both research and development in a data driven environment
• Deep understanding of high throughput data processing and event driven designs
• Experience with data analytics and data processing
• Strong coding skills with high proficiency in and/or Scala / Java 
• Ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• Experience and comfort in API development
• Architect and develop solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to research scientists, engineering teams, and business audiences
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience
• Strong English skills are a must

• Experience in software libraries for Data pipelines and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Spark, InfluxDB
• Knowledge of LLM based technologies such as OpenAI, etc 
• Experience from a DevOps/GitOps role/org
• Agentic coding experience

Diversity has been essential to Recorded Future since day one, and that is clearly visible in all teams in the company, yet there's always room for improvement. In essence, we welcome applications that will help us improve this even more.

Why should you join Recorded Future?
Recorded Future employees (or "Futurists"), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

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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.

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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.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:
Recorded Future will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Recorded Future, including those sent to our employees or through our website, will become the property of Recorded Future. Recorded Future will not be liable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Agencies must have a valid written agreement in place with Recorded Future's recruitment team and must receive written authorization before submitting resumes. Submissions made without such agreements and authorization will not be accepted and no fees will be paid.

Note: Our interview process for all final-round candidates requires a mandatory in-person interview or a live, scheduled video conference with the hiring manager. We do not conduct interviews via instant messaging or text. All communications during the application process will come from individuals within our HR department via their Recorded Future email address.