With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
Recorded Future is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a diverse team of engineers building one of the world’s most comprehensive global internet scanning platforms. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will oversee multiple established teams and functions, including:
- Scan Engine Development – Our proprietary network scanning engine that operates on a global scale to collect intelligence insights from everything on the internet, supported by a cross-functional team of software engineers and operations specialists
- Vulnerability and Signature Research – Our team of vulnerability researchers working in coordination with internal intelligence functions to develop unique detections and signatures that power the scan engine
- Scan Operations and Site Reliability – Our team responsible for the operational health, scale, and reliability of the platform, ensuring intelligence is generated and delivered continuously to support teams and clients across the organization
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of vulnerability researchers, scan operations engineers, and software engineers across multiple geographies, fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and inclusive environment. Provide technical leadership by guiding development efforts, setting direction, and coaching engineers to grow their careers while maintaining a high engineering bar.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Partner closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and stakeholders across the broader organization — including teams from recently integrated business units — to align on scope, timelines, and solution designs that serve the full breadth of Recorded Future’s needs. Effectively communicate and advocate technical solutions to product, engineering, and business audiences.
- Engineering Excellence: Drive the continuous improvement of engineering practices, processes, and tools to increase efficiency and product quality. Ensure teams design, develop, and deploy features with a focus on high availability, quality, low latency, and scalability.
- Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of product features and updates, ensuring alignment with company goals and timelines.
- Agile Practices: Implement and maintain agile methodologies for project tracking and documentation.
- AI-First Development: Champion an AI-first engineering culture across your teams, encouraging the adoption of AI tools, workflows, and practices in day-to-day development. You should be comfortable guiding your team in its application and aligned with Recorded Future’s broader commitment to AI-driven engineering.
- At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, ideally in an Enterprise SaaS product.
- At least 4 years in a management or leadership role, ideally overseeing multiple functions with remote teams in different timezones.
- Meaningful hands-on software engineering experience, ideally including familiarity with languages such as Python, Go, or C. You don’t need to be actively coding day-to-day, but you should be able to engage credibly with engineers on technical decisions and hold the team to a high engineering bar.
- Background in or strong familiarity with low-level, network-heavy applications with a focus on high-volume traffic, availability, and global scale is highly desirable, despite this role being primarily managerial.
- Familiarity with key technologies such as message busses/queues (Kafka, Rabbit, etc.), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Extensive familiarity with the TCP/IP protocol stack, including application of concepts from DNS, WHOIS, and other artifacts needed for technical reconnaissance and discovery
- Comfort with AI development concepts and a genuine enthusiasm for guiding teams to incorporate AI into their workflows and understanding its practical applications in software development
- Experience in technical leadership such as leading project teams' development efforts and setting technical direction
- A passion for coaching others to grow their technology career and sharing good practices with more junior engineers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience
- Any familiarity with cybersecurity principles and the unique challenges of developing cybersecurity products
- Any familiarity with things like port scanning, vulnerability scanning, or signature development
- Any familiarity with enterprise security products related to Recorded Future’s offerings
The base salary range for this full-time position is $199,000-$278,000. 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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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.
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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.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Recorded Future will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Recorded Future, including those sent to our employees or through our website, will become the property of Recorded Future. Recorded Future will not be liable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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.
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