Lead 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!

• Extend our data processing capabilities to provide rich reports on malware through static and dynamic analysis.
• Build tools and infrastructure to run our diverse workloads. You’ll be managing over 10PB of data, running millions of VMs a day, and processing TBs of data every hour.
• Build web services to help our users effectively use Sandbox.
• Build tools to customize and analyze operating systems and hypervisors for malware analysis. (Windows, Unix, Android, QEMU etc.)

Team members often specialize in one or more of these topics.

• You are capable of working asynchronously in a distributed team.
• You are self-driven and proactive: you contribute ideas that shape where we go, and take the initiative on technical work that needs doing.
• You have experience with Go (or potentially another strongly typed back-end language like Java, C#, C++).
• You have experience with Linux.
• You have a track record of building high-quality software (proven through past experience, projects or contributions).
• You can automate repetitive tasks.

• Linux
• Postgres
• QEMU
• Implementing RFCs and protocols
• Malware Analysis

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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