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Recorded Future

Lead Software Engineer

Gothenburg, Sweden
Level
Lead

Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.

Open. First seen 2 October 2026.

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About the role

Recorded Future's standard text

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

What You’ll Do:

  • Extend our data processing capabilities to provide rich reports on malware through static and dynamic analysis.
  • Build tools and infrastructure to run our diverse workloads. You’ll be managing over 10PB of data, running millions of VMs a day, and processing TBs of data every hour.
  • Build web services to help our users effectively use Sandbox.
  • Build tools to customize and analyze operating systems and hypervisors for malware analysis. (Windows, Unix, Android, QEMU etc.)

Team members often specialize in one or more of these topics.

What You’ll Bring:

  • You are capable of working asynchronously in a distributed team.
  • You are self-driven and proactive: you contribute ideas that shape where we go, and take the initiative on technical work that needs doing.
  • You have experience with Go (or potentially another strongly typed back-end language like Java, C#, C++).
  • You have experience with Linux.
  • You have a track record of building high-quality software (proven through past experience, projects or contributions).
  • You can automate repetitive tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Linux
  • Postgres
  • QEMU
  • Implementing RFCs and protocols
  • Malware Analysis
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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.

Want more info?
Blog & Podcast: Learn everything you want to know (and maybe some things you’d rather not know) about the world of cyber threat intelligence
Linkedin, Instagram & Twitter: What’s happening at Recorded Future
The Record: The Record is a cybersecurity news publication that explores the untold stories in this rapidly changing field
Timeline: History of Recorded Future
Recognition: Check out our awards and announcements

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 careers@recordedfuture.com

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.

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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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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.

What this role asks for

In most of Recorded Future's ads

Cybersecurity

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

45% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Recorded Future's standard text, folded away below.

Compared with Recorded Future's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering: Cyber Operations HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 3 open in Engineering: Cyber Operations. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Cybersecurity (3 of 3), Android (2 of 3)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Recorded Future's own job board.

Salary context

24 other open postings titled Lead Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 169,500 to USD 223,750 a year.

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