Senior Software Engineer: Ransomware Collections
Recorded Future2 days ago
Base Salary
$129k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve ransomware collection capabilities with emphasis on reliability, coverage, timeliness, and intelligence value.
- Expand collection beyond leak sites 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 affected by authentication, anti-automation controls, infrastructure changes, and other access challenges.
- Build infrastructure to discover, access, monitor, and preserve difficult-to-collect ransomware intelligence at scale.
- Improve system resilience and maintainability while reducing manual intervention and operational overhead.
- Establish engineering patterns for moving new sources and collection methodologies from experimentation into production.
- Collaborate across engineering, collections, and analysis teams to structure and deliver data for downstream intelligence use.
- 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 support higher-confidence intelligence.
- Experience building reliable systems against unstable or intentionally difficult-to-automate sources.
- Comfort working across cloud infrastructure, distributed collection services, browser automation, specialized network environments, and related technologies.
- Experience or familiarity with Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, S3, PostgreSQL, Redis, browser automation, authenticated sessions, TOR, proxies, SOCKS, VPNs, distributed egress, messaging, observability, and production monitoring.
- Ability to collaborate with analysts and engineering teams and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Benefits
- Full-time position with eligibility for incentive compensation and equity.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K benefits.
- Final-round interviews require either an in-person interview or a live scheduled video conference with the hiring manager.
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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.