Data Engineer II (Python and MongoDB)

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,800 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Data Engineer II, Data Pipelines

Recorded Future harvests data from many public web sources and structured data feeds. Data rich web sources such as public forums, social media sites and digital marketplaces provide cornerstone information for current cyber intelligence. As an engineer, you will join a team of motivated people working on building reliable data pipelines that ingest raw data and convert it into actionable analytics to identify and combat cyber security threats.

What you’ll do as a Data Engineer:

1. You will lead development, productionalization and maintenance of high volume data extraction via custom harvesters, APIs, and data stores.
2. Create well monitored production data pipelines which convert raw data into well organized and actionable information.
3. Maintain and upgrade existing data flow production systems.
4. Collaborate with junior engineers and senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, and other software engineering best practice collaboration.

What You'll Bring as a Data Engineer role:

1. 2+ years of python programming: You are comfortable writing production-grade data processing infrastructure in python. Your debugging skills are strong.
2. Data skills: You are comfortable working with large, complex data structures. You have experience transforming large datasets in Python, querying with modern datastores such as MongoDB and ElasticSearch, and developing corresponding APIs.
3. Well versed in both computer programming and data engineering: You want to review as well as question existing code, and can suggest modifications.
4. Pipeline software development, writing durable ETL programs as well as systematically sending and retrieving data from APIs.
5. Strong understanding of data stores (MongoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, and SQL) and their different use cases.
6. Programmatic loading of high volume structured data using python data science libraries while adhering to limited computation resource constraints.
7. Developing pipeline monitoring in python for both new and existing applications.

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 4.8-star user rating from Gartner and more than 45 of the Fortune 100 companies as clients.

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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