Lead Software Engineer, Threat Intelligence

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,800 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

We are looking for an outstanding Lead Software Engineer with diverse skills and a strong interest in driving technical excellence with the team to join Recorded Future’s Threat Intelligence Team within the R&D organization. You will join a group of talented engineers in a dynamic environment where challenging requirements, sharing knowledge, and supporting our company vision are integral to success. We work with Security Intelligence Solutions, which our clients use to stay on top of threats to their business. Within our platform we serve many different types of data, our platform serves the purpose of cutting through the noise and surfacing relevant and actionable data to search and analyze the data, create alerts, prioritize, and process the intelligence. The Threat Intelligence Team is responsible for building and continuously improving our module’s web application constructed atop our immense dataset collected by other parts of the organization.

We work in cross-functional delivery teams with developers, product managers, designers, and QA professionals collaborating to create efficient, aesthetically pleasing, and useful products.

You would get the chance to develop great software in a fast-moving environment close to our global clients and their needs. Together, we’ll improve our product to meet increasing demands while focusing on scalability and quality. You will also experiment with new technology and explore what solutions are most suitable for solving real-world problems. You would join a dynamic team eager to take on new challenges and are passionate about what they do.

What you will be doing:

• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation for threat prioritization
• Continuously design, develop, and deploy features with a focus on high availability, great quality, low latency, and scalability
• Work together with our product teams to understand and deliver expected results, which includes challenging requirements and technical suggestions through in-depth product understanding
• Select optimal methods and techniques for obtaining solutions alongside technical coordination of efforts within the Product Team
• Measure and evaluate features and system metrics to continuously improve data quality and service performance
• Support DevOps and MLOps activities
• Access to the energy, velocity, and freedom of an entrepreneurial culture
• Networks with key contacts outside the area of expertise
• Proactive, go beyond expectations, and independent
• Contribute broad expertise or unique knowledge  to the development of company technical objectives and achieve goals creatively and effectively

What you will need:

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a software engineer, preferably in technical lead roles
• Experience with more than one general-purpose programming language Scala, Java, Python
• Welcomed proficiency in React JS, Java Script, Type Script, HTML/CSS Styling
• Welcomed experience with data analytics and data processing
• Ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• Experience and comfort in API development
• Architect and develop solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Lead high-level discussions on technology strategy and approach
• Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams’ development efforts, and setting technical direction
• Experience in working in agile teams, collaborating with other teams and subject areas to deliver software from MVP phase to full-scale
• You have a passion for coaching others to grow their technology career and sharing good practices with more junior engineers
• Demonstrated ability to influence an engineering organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to product, engineering, and business audiences
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience
• Strong English skills are a must

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.

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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.

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