Principal 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!

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. You will play a key role in driving architectural improvements and ensuring the platform scales effectively as it continues to grow.

What You'll Do:

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.

What You'll Bring:

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