# Principal Software Engineer **Company**: Recorded Future **Location**: Boston, MA **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $152,000-$228,500 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recordedfuture/jobs/8505980002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_dd3dc938-a0d ## Description 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. ## Responsibilities - 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. - Work across both application code and infrastructure, contributing to backend services, data systems, and platform capabilities. - Apply statistical techniques to large-scale datasets to generate accurate and impactful insights. - Ensure production-grade pipeline reliability through strong observability, error handling, and failure recovery practices. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices to support efficient and repeatable deployments. - Communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively across teams, geographies, and varying levels of technical expertise. - Engage with technical leaders across teams and contribute to raising the engineering bar through knowledge sharing and best practices. ## Requirements - 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. ## Preferred Qualifications - 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. - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines; 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. The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,000-$228,500. ## Skills ### Required - Python - message queues - pub/sub systems - cloud infrastructure - REST APIs - data engineering - platform engineering - ETL/ELT pipelines ### Nice to have - Go - Rust - Delta Lake - graph databases - SQL databases - NoSQL databases - CI/CD pipelines - infrastructure-as-code tools - Terraform - cybersecurity data domains - graph-based data systems - security intelligence platforms --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recordedfuture/jobs/8505980002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)