Senior Staff Rust Systems Engineer - Sensor Platform (Remote)

dragos; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Competitive equity

Comprehensive benefits

Background check

Job summary

dragos is seeking a senior Staff Software Development Engineer for its Sensor Platform team. You will lead end-to-end platform initiatives on a Linux-based network sensor used in OT environments, driving reliability, latency, and data fidelity.

You will mentor peers, improve observability, and set engineering standards while collaborating across product, infrastructure, and engineering groups.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging distributed systems software.
• Deep expertise in Rust for asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and performance-sensitive systems design.
• Experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end, from design to production deployment.
• Strong grasp of concurrent system design including pipelines, backpressure, and queue management.
• Hands-on 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 durable fixes under production load; experience with message queuing or broker systems.
• Awareness of sensor reliability and data fidelity, security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead major sensor platform initiatives such as high-throughput ingestion improvements, pipeline scalability, continuous capture capability, and queue management reliability.
• Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production issues across the capture pipeline, broker, shutdown behavior, and message broker integration.
• Establish and champion standards for documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase.
• Translate business goals like latency targets and reliability SLOs into concrete technical plans and milestones.
• Identify and close gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience, building tooling to diagnose production issues faster.
• Mentor teammates through design reviews and code reviews across experience levels.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Linux systems programming

Root cause analysis

Concurrency

Message broker systems

Tools

eBPF/XDP

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AF_XDP

Job description

dragos is seeking a senior Staff Software Development Engineer for its Sensor Platform team. You will lead end-to-end platform initiatives on a Linux-based network sensor used in OT environments, driving reliability, latency, and data fidelity.

You will mentor peers, improve observability, and set engineering standards while collaborating across product, infrastructure, and engineering groups.