Senior Platform Engineer (Encryption & Data Security)
Company: Recorded Future
Location: Remote (Remote)
Salary: $152,000 - $228,500 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-16
About this role
With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
The Senior Platform Engineer (Encryption & Data Security) is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and evolution of platform capabilities that ensure secure data handling across the organization.
This role goes beyond implementation—driving technical direction, shaping best practices, and enabling development teams to build and operate secure systems by default. The focus includes encryption strategy, certificate lifecycle management, and data classification/labeling at scale.
### What You'll Do
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure infrastructure services supporting 30+ development teams.
- Own and evolve end-to-end encryption strategies across:
- Service-to-service communication
- Data at rest
- Data in transit
- Drive the design and adoption of automated certificate lifecycle management (including rotation and revocation).
- Define and implement platform-wide approaches to data classification and labeling.
- Act as a technical leader and subject matter expert in encryption and data security across the organization.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using GitOps principles, setting standards for others to follow.
- Guide and support teams in securely integrating with platform services and adopting best practices.
- Lead incident response and complex troubleshooting across infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems.
- Identify and drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and security across the platform.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy
- Mentor other engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team.
- Participate in on-call rotations and help evolve operational excellence practices
### What You'll Bring
- Deep expertise in TLS, PKI, certificate chains, and certifi...