Remote Data Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Platform

Dragos, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team building the core data layer for our cybersecurity products. You will influence analytics, asset, and vulnerability engineering teams, guiding data models, schemas, and analytics architecture.

The role requires deep distributed data systems expertise, strong leadership, and a track record of developing high-performing teams in a cybersecurity or SOC context. Remote-first, with collaboration across North America, Europe, and APAC.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering management experience
• Management experience with Agile and cross-functional Product Teams
• Cybersecurity or SOC experience with threat/asset intelligence domains
• Strong technical background in distributed data systems
• Hands-on with Elastic Stack, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, dbt
• Rust experience strongly preferred
• Hands-on with AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• Comfortable with hands-on development or troubleshooting

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
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define data models, schemas, and analytics architecture
• Partner with detection engineering and security stakeholders to ensure data quality and reliability
• Establish and drive engineering best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• 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
• Foster a strong technical community by developing relationships among Engineering Managers
• Stay current with emerging data technologies and best practices

Skills

Distributed data systems

Team leadership

Agile & cross-functional teams

Data platform design

Tools

Elastic Stack

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

dbt

Job description

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team building the core data layer for our cybersecurity products. You will influence analytics, asset, and vulnerability engineering teams, guiding data models, schemas, and analytics architecture.

The role requires deep distributed data systems expertise, strong leadership, and a track record of developing high-performing teams in a cybersecurity or SOC context. Remote-first, with collaboration across North America, Europe, and APAC.