Staff Rust Engineer - OT/ICS Sensor Platform (Remote)

Dragos, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Equity Package

Comprehensive Benefits Plan

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Sensor Platform and drive high-performance, low-latency data capture for OT/ICS environments.

You will shape architectural decisions, own reliability goals, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams across a remote-first organization. You will mentor engineers, define standards for observability and testing, and translate business requirements into durable technical plans while delivering on complex platform

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.
• Demonstrated experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end, from design documentation through production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives — high-throughput ingestion improvements, pipeline scalability, continuous capture capability, and queue management reliability.
• Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues involving 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 (latency targets, new capture interface support, reliability SLOs) into concrete technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Identify and close gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience — building the tooling that helps the team diagnose production issues faster and ship with more confidence.
• Elevate the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code review across all experience levels.

Skills

Distributed systems

Rust

Leadership

Job description

Dragos, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Sensor Platform and drive high-performance, low-latency data capture for OT/ICS environments.

You will shape architectural decisions, own reliability goals, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams across a remote-first organization. You will mentor engineers, define standards for observability and testing, and translate business requirements into durable technical plans while delivering on complex platform