Engineering Manager

About the Company

Dragos is on a relentless mission to defend industrial organizations that provide us with the necessities of modern civilization—running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. As the market leader in ICS/OT Cybersecurity, we are dedicated to arming our customers with best‑in‑class technology, threat intelligence, and services to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. We’re a remote‑first culture with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. We value authenticity, transparency, and trust.

About the Role

Dragos is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Sensor & Networking engineering team. In this critical role, you will manage and mentor a team of Rust software development engineers focused on building and evolving the Dragos Sensor, which is core to our network monitoring and protocol dissection platform deployed across operational technology (OT) and industrial control system (ICS) environments. You will enable your director to drive the design, development, and delivery of high‑performance Sensor capabilities, network ingestion pipelines, and edge processing components. Collaboration with Product Management, Analytic Developers, and Platform engineering teams is essential to ensure the Sensor meets performance, reliability, and scalability demands of critical infrastructure customers.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and mentor a team of Rust Software Development Engineers focused on Sensor and protocol dissection development.
• Own delivery of Sensor features and protocol support end‑to‑end, ensuring engineering excellence, code quality, and on‑time execution through our engineering core expectations.
• Enable the team and/or lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post‑mortems for complex production or canary issues involving Sensor or protocol dissection components.
• Establish and maintain standards for documentation, test harnesses, performance benchmarks, and coding conventions across the team.
• Coordinate with peer engineering managers across the organization to ensure consistent, efficient execution and alignment on cross‑team dependencies and shared priorities.
• Foster a team environment that promotes ownership, learning, and accountability through regular 1:1s and team rituals.
• Recruit and onboard to build a diverse, high‑performing team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering with significant systems‑level development, including at least 2 years in an engineering leadership role managing software development teams.
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical architecture and performance data into actionable insights for both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in building, mentoring, and scaling high‑performing engineering teams with a focus on technical growth and code quality.
• Deep understanding of network protocols, packet parsing, and protocol dissection concepts; experience with OT/ICS protocols (e.g., Modbus, DNP3, OPC‑UA, Ethernet/IP, S7) is highly valued.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and performance optimization.
• Experience with high‑performance, low‑latency systems, including profiling, benchmarking, and optimization of data processing pipelines.
• Experience in OT/ICS environments and familiarity with industrial monitoring or cybersecurity is highly valued.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $220,000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Comprehensive Benefits Plan

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