Lead Software Engineer, Malware Intelligence

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!

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 Malware 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 cuts through the noise and surfaces relevant and actionable data to search and analyze the data, create alerts, prioritize, and process the intelligence. The Malware Intelligence Team is responsible for building and continuously improving the Malware Intelligence processing pipeline and web application constructed atop our immense dataset from other parts of the organization.

Our product team consists of Data Scientists, Backend and Frontend developers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA professionals collaborating to create efficient 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 passionate about what they do.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and own the design, development, and optimization of large-scale data pipelines that process and analyze malware samples.
• Optimize feature extraction, high-volume cloud, ETL processes, storage solutions, and real-time data streaming for scalability and reliability.
• You will work closely with our internal researchers, data scientists, and platform engineers to ensure efficient data ingestion, enrichment, and correlation to enhance threat detection and response.
• Continuously design, develop, and deploy features with a focus on high availability, great quality, low latency, and scalability
• Work with threat intelligence feeds, sandbox reports, and different threat detection rules’ formats to enrich malware detection
• 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 improve quality and service performance.
• Implement automation for data collection, analysis, and alerting to reduce manual effort.
• Network with key contacts outside the area of expertise
• Proactive, goes beyond expectations, independent, self-driven

What you will need:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a software engineer, preferably in technical lead roles
• Strong experience in Python, Scala, or Java for backend development
• Proficiency in distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Flink) and AWS cloud services
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines for deployment automation
• Architected and developed solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Lead high-level discussions on technology strategy and approach
• Hands-on experience in building real-time systems, preferably threat detection, with the ability to analyze complex security data and develop efficient solutions
• Experience in working in agile teams, collaborating with other teams and subject areas to deliver software from MVP phase to full-scale
• 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 communication 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 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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