Staff SDE: Sensor Platform & Networked Systems (Remote-First)

Dragos, Inc.; Lennox Park (MD); On-site; USD 163,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Comprehensive Benefits Plan

Job summary

Dragos, Inc. seeks a Staff SDE for the Sensor Platform to lead large-scale platform initiatives, set technical standards, and translate business goals into durable engineering plans.

You will mentor peers and own critical parts of the capture pipeline across product, infra, and security teams. This remote-first role supports North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC, focusing on reliability, latency, and data fidelity for OT/ICS monitoring environments.

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.
• Experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end, from design documentation through production deployment.
• 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 lowlatency workloads.
• Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex, multi-component failures and drive durable fixes that hold under production load.
• Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load.
• Awareness of how sensor reliability and data fidelity directly affect detection quality in ICS/OT network monitoring environments.
• Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity best practices, including secure coding, data protection, and awareness of threats and vulnerabilities.

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 tooling to diagnose production issues faster and ship with confidence.
• Elevate the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code review across all experience levels.

Skills

Distributed systems

Rust

Ownership of large initiatives

Concurrency

Linux systems programming

Root cause analysis

Message queues

Security practices

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

eBPF

XDP

Job description

Dragos, Inc. seeks a Staff SDE for the Sensor Platform to lead large-scale platform initiatives, set technical standards, and translate business goals into durable engineering plans.

You will mentor peers and own critical parts of the capture pipeline across product, infra, and security teams. This remote-first role supports North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC, focusing on reliability, latency, and data fidelity for OT/ICS monitoring environments.