Senior Software Engineer: Ransomware Collections
Recorded Future2 days ago
Base Salary
$129k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve ransomware collection engineering capabilities with emphasis on reliability, coverage, timeliness, and intelligence value.
- Expand collection into user-focused approaches covering actors, communities, infrastructure, identities, and relationships.
- Translate analyst requirements and investigative questions into scalable technical collection systems.
- Develop automated access strategies for sources with authentication, anti-automation controls, infrastructure changes, and other access challenges.
- Build infrastructure to discover, access, monitor, and preserve difficult-to-collect intelligence at scale.
- Improve resilience and maintainability while reducing manual intervention and operational overhead.
- Move new collection sources and methodologies from experimentation into reliable production systems.
- Collaborate across engineering, collections, and analysis teams to structure and deliver collected data.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship and help establish engineering standards and architectural direction.
Requirements
- Strong collection engineering experience and an understanding of how technical collection decisions translate into higher-confidence intelligence.
- Experience building reliable systems against unstable or intentionally difficult-to-automate sources.
- Comfort learning and operating across cloud infrastructure, distributed collection services, browser automation, and specialized network environments.
- Experience or familiarity with Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, S3, PostgreSQL, Redis, browser automation, authenticated sessions, TOR, proxies, SOCKS, VPNs, messaging architectures, GitHub, automated testing, observability, and production monitoring.
- Ability to collaborate with ransomware analysts and broader collections teams to develop scalable technical capabilities.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and long-term architectural direction.
Benefits
- Full-time position with eligibility for incentive compensation, equity, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K benefits.
- Final-round interviews require either a mandatory in-person interview or a live scheduled video conference with the hiring manager.
Tech Stack
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About Recorded Future
Recorded Future builds a threat intelligence platform that aggregates data from the open web, dark web, and technical sources to help security teams detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats. It sells subscriptions to enterprises and government agencies, with modules for phishing, ransomware, third‑party risk, and state‑sponsored threats. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, it serves customers worldwide across regulated and high‑risk industries.