Principal Data Engineer

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

We are looking for a Data Engineer to improve the Security Intelligence Graph. As a Data Engineer, you will build production-grade pipelines to drive data convergence from various sources within the graph, ensure that Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) are properly attributed, and improve the quality of the graph at scale.

What You'll Do:

• Work with the Graph Quality team to align, analyze, and ingest asset maps into the Security Intelligence Graph

• Develop, productize, monitor, and maintain data pipelines to analyze and ingest data at scale

• Lead a team of Data Engineers by providing guidance on projects and direction of best practices

• Build tools and APIs to facilitate access to data and analytics developed from the intelligence graph

• Analyze and explain patterns in data to drive business‑critical decisions

• Create technical project plans and drive the successful execution of projects, with input from our Product team and other developers on the team

• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and business leaders to develop and refine technical solutions

• Onboard and guide junior members of the team

• Assist in setting team goals, planning sprints, and leading Agile scrum meetings

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years of Python programming

• 2+ years of experience with cloud computing tools, e.g. from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

• 1+ years of experience leading and/or mentoring other team members

• Experience writing scalable, production‑grade applications and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Efficient & accurate problem solving skills, including the ability to debug both software and data

• Proven ability to analyze data and apply statistical techniques to draw accurate, impactful conclusions

• Proven success in delivering projects from design and implementation to release

• Excellent attention to detail & ability to work independently while delivering high‑quality results

• Excellent written & verbal communication when collaborating with colleagues across various locations and timezones, designing technical approaches, and writing documentation

• Eagerness to continue learning and teaching new skills to team members, in order to raise the bar across the team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with both batch and streaming pipelines

• Familiarity with any of the following: message buses (e.g. Kafka, Rabbit

MQ), No

SQL databases (e.g. Mongo

DB, AWS Neptune, Neo4j), Elastic Search

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Exposure to ML approaches, including experience productizing ML models

• Experience with developing REST APIs with Python frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django, FastAPI)

• Leadership experience, with a track record of presenting information to stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise

The base salary range for this full‑time position is $152,000-$228,500. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.

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 4.6‑star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

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