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Principal Data Engineer, Attack Surface Intelligence

Securing our world with intelligence. As threats accelerate and converge in the world around us, Recorded Future empowers countries and organizations with the right intelligence at the right time, to keep our people and infrastructure safe.

Recorded Future

Employee count: 1001-5000

United States only

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Principal Data Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned engineer to help design, build, and scale the systems that power our Attack Surface Intelligence module. You’ll be taking ownership of critical data pipelines responsible for the ingestion and distribution of critical intelligence signals, both internally and directly to customers via the product. The Attack Surface Intelligence Data Engineering team is responsible for two key datasets: our holistic global internet inventory and the technical artifacts of our customers’ attack surface.

This role reports directly to the Engineering Owner for Attack Surface Intelligence Data and is ideal for someone who enjoys writing clean, maintainable code and thrives in distributed systems environments. You'll work closely with product management and other engineering teams to drive technical strategy and ensure our systems are reliable, performant, and insightful.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead the design and implementation of backend services and APIs in Python
  • Architect and evolve microservice-based systems for scalability and resilience
  • Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional partners to align technical work with business goals
  • Proactively identify and resolve data and integration issues by diving deep into our pipelines and systems
  • Drive observability and operational excellence across services
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews and design discussions
  • Coordinate with internal stakeholders outside of the Attack Surface Intelligence team to inform solutions for data transfers around the greater Recorded Future ecosystem
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term platform strategy

What You'll Bring:

  • Proven experience designing maintaining scalable APIs and microservices in Python leveraging tools like Kafka, Clickhouse, and Elasticsearch.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture
  • Comfortable exploring data to debug, validate assumptions, and drive better system behavior
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work across teams to align on goals and priorities
  • Track record of operating independently and driving complex projects, especially with a geographically distributed team
  • Experience with informing and driving coding and design standards within a team

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 4.8-star user rating from Gartner and more than 45 of the Fortune 100 companies as clients.

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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.

If you need any accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our recruiting team at careers@recordedfuture.com

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.

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The world’s intelligence company.

With more than 1,500 clients across 66 countries, including the governments of 30 countries, over 50% of the Fortune 100 and 40% of the Forbes Global 100, and the largest holdings of interlinked threat data sets, Recorded Future is the world’s largest intelligence company.

Securing our world with intelligence

Our vast digital landscape is an infinite attack surface and adversaries are infiltrating weak targets, disrupting organizations and lives. As threats accelerate and converge, tracking external threats – from the news headlines to the darkest corners of the web, and anticipating how they may impact us, is critical not just for government officials, but for every business leader.

We must deter and disrupt adversaries before they disrupt us. The only way to do this is to stay one step ahead – know their intents, toolsets, infrastructure, targets – and use this intelligence to inform action. Enter Recorded Future. We empower our clients with the right intelligence at the right time, to keep their people and infrastructure safe.

Platform, People, News

Platform: Our Intelligence Platform delivers an end-to-end view of threats across the enterprise. At the core is the Intelligence Graph, with the world’s most comprehensive reference data set, collected and curated over 10+ years, and continually enhanced. Our modular approach integrates with security programs across the enterprise, and delivers intelligence that is contextualized to specific roles and areas of risk.

People: Our threat research division, Insikt Group, comprises analysts and security researchers with deep government, law enforcement, military, and intelligence agency experience. Their mission is to produce intelligence that reduces risk for clients, enables tangible outcomes, and prevents business disruption. Our Intelligence Services team has been deploying intelligence at large global enterprises for more than a decade and applies this collective knowledge to ensure the success of all clients.

News: Using real-time intelligence generated by our platform and our exclusive access to business leaders, national policy makers, and the shadows of the cyber underground, our news division, Recorded Future News, covers breaking news and provides our community with unique, behind-the-scenes views of the people and stories impacting the digital world.

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