Senior Platform Engineer – Encryption, Data Security

Recorded Future

Senior Platform Engineer at Recorded Future leading data security strategies and infrastructure improvements. Responsible for encryption, data handling, and mentoring teams in secure system practices.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $152,000 - $228,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsEC2ElasticSearchLinuxMongoDB

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep expertise in TLS, PKI, certificate chains, and certificate lifecycle management.
Strong understanding of encryption fundamentals (symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, key management, rotation strategies).
Proven experience designing and operating secure systems at scale.
Strong experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or similar roles.
Proficiency in at least one programming language and ability to write production-grade code.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-based workflows.
Deep expertise in AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, ALB/ELB, and Transit Gateway.
Strong Linux engineering skills, including networking, storage, and OS fundamentals.
Solid understanding of network security and experience with CDNs.
Experience working with at least one database, Elasticsearch or Mongodb preferred.
Experience working with distributed systems and debugging complex production issues.
Ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to resolution.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
life insurance
401K

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Hard Skills & Tools

TLSPKIcertificate lifecycle managementencryption fundamentalssymmetric cryptographyasymmetric cryptographyInfrastructure as CodeGitOpsAWSLinux

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem ownershipinfluencecollaborationincident responsetroubleshootingsupporting teamsevolving practices