Lead Data Engineer - Real-Time Cybersecurity

Dragos, Inc.; Lennox Park (MD); On-site; USD 191,000 - 258,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a remote-first team focused on xOT cybersecurity data platforms. You will design and optimize analytics pipelines, build resilient data contracts, and drive data governance across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will work cross-functionally with product engineering and leadership to deliver scalable data solutions that power detection capabilities and threat intelligence, while advancing observability and data quality practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data engineering experience.
• Cybersecurity experience.
• Architecture expertise creating scalable systems, designing efficient data storage and processing systems.
• Expertise in data modeling including incremental models, dimensional models, network topologies and graph structures.
• Cross-functional communication skills.
• Skilled in implementing data observability frameworks, designing robust data contracts, and optimizing data structures for performance and scalability.
• Software development skills in Rust, Go, JVM-family, Python, and/or Node.js languages.
• Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from medium-to-large scale datasets, especially relevant if cybersecurity or industrial data.
• Knowledge of integrating cloud and on-premises technologies in industrial environments, with deployments on Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional efforts to re-architect or modernize core data systems.
• Create sustainable data contracts that address data governance requirements.
• Enable scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines that support both cloud and on-prem environments.
• Implement real-time data processing solutions for configuration and asset communication pipelines.
• Partners with leadership to align team efforts to broaden company data strategy.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver data solutions that enhance customer-facing products.
• Establish and contribute to shared tooling for observability, lineage tracking, and configuration validation.

Skills

Data engineering

Cybersecurity

Architecture

Data modeling

Cross-functional communication

Data observability

Rust

Go

JVM family

Python

Node.js

Kubernetes

Docker

Message queues

Stream processing

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Message queues

Stream processing

Job description

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a remote-first team focused on xOT cybersecurity data platforms. You will design and optimize analytics pipelines, build resilient data contracts, and drive data governance across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will work cross-functionally with product engineering and leadership to deliver scalable data solutions that power detection capabilities and threat intelligence, while advancing observability and data quality practices.