Data Engineering Manager: AI-Driven Platform Lead

Dragos, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 187,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Dragos is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead the data engines powering our products and analytics, with direct influence on analytics, asset, and vulnerability engineering teams. The role requires deep distributed data systems knowledge, strong leadership, and experience in cybersecurity or SOC environments.

You will drive modernization across the platform to boost performance and resource efficiency, champion AI-assisted engineering practices, and guide design, development, testing, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years engineering management experience

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, driving their technical growth and professional development.
• Drive hiring and team growth to scale with roadmap demands.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the data platform, driving modernization initiatives that improve performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define data models, schemas, and analytics architecture across the teams this role influences.
• Partner with detection engineering and other security stakeholders to ensure data quality, freshness, and reliability for threat-detection and analysis workflows.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization strategies for data pipelines and storage systems.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the team to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Provide guidance during software design, development, testing, and release.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects, balancing technical debt and innovation.
• Own production support for fielded deployments, including incident response and on-call coverage for the data platform.
• Foster a strong technical community by developing close relationships amongst Engineering Managers.
• Stay current with emerging data technologies, frameworks, and best practices to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Team leadership

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Cybersecurity/SOC knowledge

Distributed data systems

AI/LLM tooling

Hands-on development

Communication

Tools

Elastic Stack

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

dbt

Rust

Job description

Dragos is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead the data engines powering our products and analytics, with direct influence on analytics, asset, and vulnerability engineering teams. The role requires deep distributed data systems knowledge, strong leadership, and experience in cybersecurity or SOC environments.

You will drive modernization across the platform to boost performance and resource efficiency, champion AI-assisted engineering practices, and guide design, development, testing, and