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At Dragos the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink power your home and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail people are immediately at risk. We are the global leader in xOT cybersecurity combining technology threat intelligence and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what is at stake. Here you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America Europe the Middle East and APAC built on authenticity transparency and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family friends and community is the kind of work that matters to you you are in the right place.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team of data engineers responsible for the core data layer underpinning our products with direct influence on our analytics asset and vulnerability engineering teams amongst others. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge of distributed data systems exceptional leadership skills and a proven ability to develop high-performing teams grounded in real cybersecurity or SOC domain experience. This role will also drive modernization efforts across the platform to improve performance and resource efficiency and will champion the team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of data engineers driving their technical growth and professional development.
- Drive hiring and team growth to scale with roadmap demands.
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the data platform driving modernization initiatives that improve performance scalability and resource efficiency.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define data models schemas and analytics architecture across the teams this role influences.
- Partner with detection engineering and other security stakeholders to ensure data quality freshness and reliability for threat-detection and analysis workflows.
- Establish and drive engineering best practices coding standards and performance optimization strategies for data pipelines and storage systems.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the team to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
- Provide guidance during software design development testing and release.
- Ensure timely delivery of projects balancing technical debt and innovation.
- Own production support for fielded deployments including incident response and on-call coverage for the data platform.
- Foster a strong technical community by developing close relationships amongst Engineering Managers.
- Stay current with emerging data technologies frameworks and best practices to drive continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of engineering management experience consistently building and leading highly effective teams
- Management experience with Agile and working in cross-functional Product Teams
- Cybersecurity or SOC (Security Operations Center) experience required with knowledge of threat detection threat intelligence vulnerability/asset intelligence or ICS/OT security given this role's direct influence on teams supporting those domains
- Strong technical background in distributed data systems
- Prior experience as an engineer with strong working knowledge of technologies such as the Elastic Stack Airflow Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL ClickHouse and dbt
- Rust experience strongly preferred
- Heavy hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows (e.g. LLM-based coding assistants AI-driven data tooling) with a track record of driving adoption across a team
- Comfortable with hands-on development or troubleshooting
- Excellent communication leadership and presentation skills
Compensation:
- Salary: $220000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex orientation national origin age disability genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal state or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of engineering management experience
- Management experience with Agile and working in cross-functional product teams
- Cybersecurity or SOC experience with knowledge of threat detection threat intelligence vulnerability/asset intelligence or ICS/OT security
- Strong technical background in distributed data systems
- Prior experience as an engineer with strong working knowledge of Elastic Stack Airflow Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL ClickHouse and dbt
- Rust experience
- Heavy hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows (e.g. LLM-based coding assistants AI-driven data tooling) and track record driving adoption
- Comfortable with hands-on development or troubleshooting
- Excellent communication leadership and presentation skills
What We Do
Dragos is an industrial (OT/ICS/IIoT) cybersecurity company on a mission to safeguard civilization. Our integrated software platform provides critical visibility into ICS and OT networks so that threats are identified and can be addressed before they become significant events our solutions are optimized for emerging applications like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabling our clients in power and water utilities energy and manufacturing industries to establish a resilient and adaptable security posture.
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