Description
Recorded Future is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help advance the next generation of its ransomware collection capabilities.
The ideal candidate combines strong collection engineering experience with an understanding of how technical collection decisions translate into higher-confidence intelligence for analysts and customers.
Responsibilities:
- Own and improve engineering capabilities supporting ransomware collection, with an emphasis on reliability, coverage, timeliness, and intelligence value.
- Expand ransomware collection beyond leak sites and other conventional sources into user-focused approaches that provide greater visibility into relevant actors and communities.
- Partner closely with ransomware analysts to translate intelligence requirements and emerging investigative questions into scalable technical collection capabilities.
- Develop and continuously refine automated access strategies for ransomware-related sources.
- Build infrastructure that enables the team to discover, access, monitor, and preserve difficult-to-collect ransomware intelligence at scale.
- Improve the resilience and maintainability of existing ransomware collection systems while reducing manual intervention and operational overhead.
- Establish engineering patterns that allow new ransomware sources and collection methodologies to move efficiently and reliably from experimentation into production.
- Collaborate across engineering, collections, and analysis teams to ensure collected data is structured and delivered in ways that maximize downstream intelligence value.
- Contribute technical leadership and mentorship within the collections organization.
Technology & Engineering Environment:
- Languages: Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Data & Storage: S3, PostgreSQL, Redis and distributed caching/storage systems
- Collection & Automation: HTTP-based collectors, browser automation, headless browsers, Playwright/Selenium-style tooling, authenticated session management
- Network & Access: TOR, proxies, SOCKS, VPNs, distributed egress and specialized collection infrastructure
- Messaging & Processing: Queue- and event-driven processing architectures
- Engineering: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability and production monitoring
- Security & Intelligence: Dark-web and restricted-source collection, ransomware infrastructure, identity and entity resolution, and adversarial web environments
What Success Looks Like: Success in this role means that the ransomware collection capability becomes increasingly difficult to replicate through open-source monitoring alone.
Salary Range: $129,000 - $193,500