Remote Staff Software Engineer, High-Perf Sensor Platform

Dragos; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragos, a global leader in OT/ICS cybersecurity, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive platform initiatives from design to production. You will define architectural direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance.

The role focuses on high-throughput ingestion, pipeline scalability, root-cause analysis, and strong observability standards across the sensor codebase, with emphasis on secure coding practices and

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing distributed systems with deep Rust expertise in async programming.
• Strong grasp of concurrent system design and high-performance packet capture.
• Experience applying cybersecurity best practices and leading complex failure analyses.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-throughput ingestion improvements and pipeline scalability with product and infrastructure peers.
• Drive root cause analysis and postmortems for production issues involving the capture pipeline and broker.
• Champion standards for documentation, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Rust programming

Async/concurrent programming

Job description

Dragos, a global leader in OT/ICS cybersecurity, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive platform initiatives from design to production. You will define architectural direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance.

The role focuses on high-throughput ingestion, pipeline scalability, root-cause analysis, and strong observability standards across the sensor codebase, with emphasis on secure coding practices and