Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About 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.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Deep AWS 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.

🎁 Benefits

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.