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 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 telemetr