Description
At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running.
As a Staff SDE on the Sensor team, you'll lead large-scale platform initiatives from design through production, set the technical bar for the Sensor Skill Community, and translate business-level goals into durable engineering decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives in close collaboration with product, infrastructure, and engineering peers
- Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues
- Establish and champion standards for documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase
- Translate business goals into concrete technical plans and delivery milestones
- Identify and close gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience
- Elevate the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code review across all experience levels
Qualifications: Required:
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging distributed systems software
- Deep Rust expertise across asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and performance-sensitive systems design
- Demonstrated experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end
- Strong grasp of concurrent system design
- Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads
- Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex, multi-component failures and drive durable fixes
- Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load
- Awareness of how sensor reliability and data fidelity directly affect detection quality in ICS/OT network monitoring environments
Preferred:
- Experience with eBPF or XDP for kernel-bypass packet processing, AF_XDP socket programming, or high-speed capture at the Linux data plane
- Prior work in ICS/OT environments, industrial network protocol analysis, or OT security tooling
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized sensor deployments, or edge infrastructure
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, structured logging, or distributed tracing in production systems
- Prior experience in a security-focused product engineering environment