Remote Staff Rust Engineer - High-Performance Networking

Dragos; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Equity package

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Dragos seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives that process OT/ICS traffic in real time. You will own designs from inception to production, driving reliability, latency, and data fidelity in a high-throughput Linux environment.

You will mentor engineers, set coding standards, and collaborate with product and infra teams to deliver durable engineering solutions across the Sensor codebase.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Proven experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end.
• Strong grasp of concurrent system design: pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management.
• Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads.
• Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex failures and drive durable fixes.
• Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load.
• Awareness of how sensor reliability and data fidelity affect detection quality in ICS/OT networks.
• Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity best practices, including secure coding and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives, incl. ingestion improvements, pipeline scalability, and queue reliability.
• Own root cause analysis and postmortems for production/canary issues in the capture pipeline and broker integration.
• Set 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 with tooling.
• Mentor team members through design reviews and code reviews across experience levels.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Asynchronous programming

Linux systems programming

Concurrency

Performance optimization

Mentorship

Root cause analysis

System architecture

Tools

Message queues

Job description

Dragos seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives that process OT/ICS traffic in real time. You will own designs from inception to production, driving reliability, latency, and data fidelity in a high-throughput Linux environment.

You will mentor engineers, set coding standards, and collaborate with product and infra teams to deliver durable engineering solutions across the Sensor codebase.