With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
The Platform Engineer helps design, build, and operate shared infrastructure services that development teams across the organization rely on every day.
You'll work on cloud infrastructure, automation, and secure-by-default platform services — including areas like encryption and certificate management — enabling teams to build and ship with confidence.
What You'll Do:- Build and maintain infrastructure services used by development teams across the organization.
- Contribute to platform capabilities around data handling, encryption, and certificates.
- Develop and manage infrastructure as code using GitOps principles.
- Help operate and improve our AWS cloud infrastructure for reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure smooth integration and operations.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support infrastructure availability.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across infrastructure and applications.
- Communicate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
- Experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience with AWS core services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Experience with an Infrastructure as Code tool.
- Solid Linux fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
- Familiarity with TLS and certificates, and an interest in growing in this area.
- Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work well in a team.
- DeepAWS experience
- Knowledge of PKI, certificate lifecycle management, or key management.
- Experience deploying infrastructure through GitOps pipelines.
- Familiarity with CDNs and network fundamentals.
- Additional programming languages such as Go or Java.
- Experience with large-scale or distributed systems.
- Knowledge of messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, CMMC).
- Relevant AWS certifications.
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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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.
If you need any accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our recruiting team at [email protected]
Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
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.
Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.
Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.
Note: Our interview process for all final-round candidates requires a mandatory in-person interview or a live, scheduled video conference with the hiring manager. We do not conduct interviews via instant messaging or text. All communications during the application process will come from individuals within our HR department via their Recorded Future email address.
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Agencies must have a valid written agreement in place with Recorded Future's recruitment team and must receive written authorization before submitting resumes. Submissions made without such agreements and authorization will not be accepted and no fees will be paid.
Skills Required
- Deep understanding of TLS, PKI and certificate chains
- Encryption fundamentals (symmetric/asymmetric, key rotation)
- Experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related field
- Proficiency in at least one programming language
- Experience with at least one Infrastructure as Code tool or provider
- Deep expertise in AWS including EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, ALB/ELB, and Transit Gateway
- Strong Linux engineering skills, including networking, storage, and OS fundamentals
- Solid understanding of network security fundamentals and experience with CDNs
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure through GitOps pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively within a team environment
- Strong problem-solving and debugging abilities in complex distributed systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience working within compliance and regulatory frameworks (CMMC and FedRAMP)
- Familiarity with additional programming languages such as Go or Java
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Knowledge of messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Understanding of cloud security best practices
- Understanding of microservices architectures and distributed systems technologies
- Relevant AWS certifications
- Experience with automated certificate rotation services
Recorded Future Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Recorded Future and has not been reviewed or approved by Recorded Future.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered generally competitive versus market, with posted ranges visible for many roles and strong packages noted in sales and technical positions. This positioning supports confidence that offers can align with market levels.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as strong, with the company highlighting comprehensive medical plans. This foundation underpins a positive view of core healthcare support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is often portrayed as generous, including flexible or unlimited PTO and notable parental leave. These elements emphasize rest, flexibility, and family support.
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What We Do
Headquartered in Boston with offices and 1000 employees around the world, Recorded Future works with over 1,800 businesses and government organizations across more than 75 countries to provide real-time, unbiased and actionable intelligence. Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Indexing the internet across the open web, dark web, and technical sources, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into an expanding attack surface and threat landscape, empowering clients to act with speed and confidence to reduce risk and securely drive business forward.
Why Work With Us
Recorded Future is dedicated to creating an inclusive and safe environment for all employees. Our Employee Resource Groups (Black Empowerment Support Group, Women@RF, Out@RF, Ohana, Veterans@RF), and culture team work very closely to foster an environment where employees can thrive and be themselves.
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