Recorded Future is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering team, responsible for building and scaling the pipelines that power the Security Intelligence Graph. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work across application code and infrastructure to collect, transform, and deliver structured threat data: tracking malware infrastructure, phishing campaigns, spam networks, command-and-control systems, and more. You will play a key role in driving architectural improvements and ensuring the platform scales effectively as it continues to grow.

What You'll Do:

• Data Pipeline Ownership: Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that collect, transform, and deliver structured threat intelligence data powering the Security Intelligence Graph.
• Architecture & Scalability: Drive meaningful architectural improvements across data and platform systems to ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Full-Stack Engineering: Work across both application code and infrastructure, contributing to backend services, data systems, and platform capabilities.
• Data Processing & Analysis: Apply statistical techniques to large-scale datasets to generate accurate and impactful insights.
• Reliability & Observability: Ensure production-grade pipeline reliability through strong observability, error handling, and failure recovery practices.
• Infrastructure & Deployment: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices to support efficient and repeatable deployments.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively across teams, geographies, and varying levels of technical expertise.
• Technical Leadership: Engage with technical leaders across teams and contribute to raising the engineering bar through knowledge sharing and best practices.

What You'll Bring:

• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or platform engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with experience in Go or Rust considered a plus.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with message queues and pub/sub systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or AWS RDS, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with data lake storage frameworks such as Delta Lake and graph databases such as AWS Neptune or Neo4j.
• Experience developing REST APIs using frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering production-grade applications and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong understanding of building reliable data pipelines, including observability, error handling, and failure recovery.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools; Terraform experience is a plus.
• Comfort working with high-volume, complex, and unstructured data.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to debug both software and data issues.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work independently while delivering high-quality results.
• Interest in or familiarity with security data domains such as threat infrastructure, malware, or network telemetry.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or interest in cybersecurity data domains such as malware analysis, phishing detection, or network telemetry.
• Experience working with graph-based data systems or security intelligence platforms.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,000-$228,500. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.

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Do you want to be a part of the clean energy movement? Are you passionate about improving our environment for this generation and those to follow? Are you ready to take on new challenges and collaborate with a future-focused team leading the way into new markets? Join Nexamp! 

This is where you can learn from industry leaders and become one yourself. It's fast-paced, mission-based work that challenges the status quo. Be on the team that's changing the world. 

What we’re looking for: 

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Developer to help us build and optimize tech solutions to accelerate our sustainable energy future. At Nexamp, you'll be part of an engineering squad focused on multiplying the efficiency of how we raise and deploy billions of dollars of capital into low-downtime solar power plants. You’ll be the front-end lead on the squad and will drive impact by writing quality code, steering projects from conception to completion, helping refine our processes, and guiding more junior team members. This role will be hybrid, based out of our Boston office, and you will report to your squad’s Tech Lead.

What you’ll do:  

• Internalize our objectives and deliver measurable change for Nexamp and our customers.  
• Design, implement, and deploy reliable and efficient production software in our React/Django/Azure stack.   
• Actively collaborate in sprint planning, execution, code reviews, demos, and retrospectives.  
• Own design decisions across our React applications and establish and execute scalable patterns, standards, and best practices for the squad.
• Guide and inspire more junior developers across the organization through mentorship and collaboration.  
• Continually seek ways to level-up your own skills and make a bigger impact throughout the company.

What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of full stack software development experience at companies with 10 or more developers.
• Experience architecting, building, and deploying consumer-facing frontend applications in React and Typescript.
• Experience developing and optimizing web-based solutions in modern Python, ideally using Django, FastAPI, or similar frameworks.
• Robust understanding of web standards, infrastructure (databases, storage, caching, content delivery, etc.), and cloud platform offerings.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with users and business stakeholders, facilitating software and process requirements.
• Experience leveraging debugging expertise and a proven track record of independently solving problems.
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git, CI/CD pipelines for automated testing & deployment, and infrastructure tools like Terraform.
• Understanding of cutting edge AI tools and a commitment to leveraging them to rapidly deliver high quality software.
• Ownership mentality and initiative to make improvements to code, processes, and user experiences across the organization.
• Can-do attitude toward architecting right-sized solutions to real-world business problems.
• Commitment to Nexamp's mission and have a passion for solving tomorrow's climate crisis today.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond your organization.   
• Experience in showcasing initiative to make improvements to current work, processes, products, and services across the organization. We value accountability and an ownership mentality. 
• Ability to ask appropriate questions, analyze data, identify the root causes of problems, and present creative solutions. 
• Expertise in building strong internal and external relationships with customers and stakeholders, instilling trust and loyalty across the industry. 
• Eagerness to develop a fundamental understanding of how Nexamp operates and then apply that knowledge effectively to inform business decisions.

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, but see yourself contributing, please apply.

At Nexamp, our mission is to build the future of energy so it is clean, simple, and accessible for all. We are committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. By encouraging a culture where ideas and decisions come from all people, we believe it will help us grow, innovate, and be a part of environmental and social change.

You’ll love working here because:  

Not only will you get to take part in meaningful work and have the chance to change the world alongside innovative, dedicated, and motivated peers, but you will also have access to all the benefits that Nexamp offers! This includes our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one; flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; commuter benefits, and cell phone reimbursement. We have headquarters in Boston, MA and Chicago, IL, in addition to growing offices nationwide. We provide healthy snacks, coffee, service days and other volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!  

Compensation: 

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Nexamp ranges from $170,000 - $190,000. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual bonus programs based on individual and company performance, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). Additionally, you may be eligible to participate in the Company’s stock option plan. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but is not limited to, skills and qualifications, internal equity, performance, and geographic location. 

Nexamp's People team manages all aspects of recruitment and hiring within our organization. We want to inform third-party recruiters, staffing firms, and related agencies that Nexamp does not accept unsolicited resumes. Resumes will only be considered from these entities if a signed agreement is in place and the People team explicitly authorizes external recruiting assistance for a specific position. Any unsolicited resumes received will be deemed the property of Nexamp. We want to emphasize that Nexamp is not liable for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes. 

PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to sponsor for this role.  So if you will require sponsorship at ANY time in the future, you will not be under consideration for the role.

We have an exceptional role in our Waltham, MA headquarters for a Senior Software Engineer.  As a Senior Software Engineer focusing on Full-stack Node.js Web development, you will be building out Markforged’s 3D printer/content management system and web-based slicer (Eiger).

This is a true full-stack position, ranging from designing REST APIs, utilizing AWS services, optimizing Postgres queries, and implementing new 3D views in WebGL. This role requires the ability to bridge the gap between engineering and design, leveraging experience in UX principles and design tools like Figma to rapidly prototype, iterate on, and implement exceptional user experiences.

What you will own:

• Full Stack Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain a world-class scalable, multi-tenant web application for storing, editing, printing, and managing 3D designs and 3D printers
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to technical architecture decisions, perform code reviews, and drive best practices in coding standards, system design, and performance optimization to deliver new features at scale. Plan for the growth of Markforged’s infrastructure and mentor junior team members
• UX/Design Integration: Apply UX principles to translate user needs into intuitive UIs, and create basic wireframes or prototypes using tools like Figma to rapidly iterate on solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with designers, engineers of a variety of disciplines, and customers, to understand project requirements and deliver solutions that meet business goals.

What you have:

• Experience: 5+ years professional experience building and shipping high quality code, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Full Stack Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge Javascript or Typescript using a modern front-end framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js, etc) and a back-end language/framework (e.g., Node.js/Express, Python/Django/Flask, etc), building APIs services and scaling systems
• UX & Prototyping: Demonstrated experience with UX design principles and the ability to create basic mockups or prototypes using design tools such (e.g., Figma)
• DevOps & Cloud: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems
• Database Expertise: Proficiency with both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and experience with data modeling and query optimization
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Points

• A portfolio demonstrating full-stack development and design/mock up work
• Design and implement observability tooling for monitoring and alerting
• Experience with web-based visualization frameworks (e.g. Three.js, Canvas, D3, WebGL and more)
• Experience with CAD/CAM software and 3D modeling libraries

Salary Range

The salary range for this role is expected to be between $146,608 - $198,352.  Actual base pay could vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, subject matter expertise, geographic location, certifications, licenses, business needs and the applicant’s skill set.  The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other components may include a comprehensive benefits package. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only.

Our software technologies and tools empower our customers to configure print-ready parts, visualize part geometry in 3D, and push to IoT-connected printers for printing. As part of the Software Engineering team, you will be helping to lead the scaling and growth of our 3D printing platform involving end-customer applications and IoT services.  We move quickly and refuse to compromise on quality. We believe in “doing it right the first time” and investing in code quality, testing, tooling and infrastructure. Your ideas will directly influence the company's future. You will do interdisciplinary work with cloud and physical systems and learn from best-of-the-best engineers across Materials Science, Mech-E, EE, and Software. You will have hands-on experience using our printers and technology.