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Backend Engineering Manager

Dragos, Inc.

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience leading and building technical teams
  • 5+ years of experience developing and/or leading teams developing software applications with microservice architectures
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience as a software engineer with strong fundamentals in backend system design
  • Familiarity with Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, or Hashicorp Vault

Responsibilities

  • Leadership and health of the Backend Engineering skill community
  • Mentor Engineering team members, especially their growth in technical expertise and career goals
  • Champion the vision and execution of the backend components of the Dragos Platform
  • Heavy collaboration with tech leads and Product Managers on product teams

About the company

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Dragos, Inc.

Dragos has a global mission to safeguard civilization from those trying to disrupt the industrial infrastructure we depend on every day. The Dragos Platform offers the most effective industrial cybersecurity technology, giving customers visibility into their ICS/OT assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and response actions. The strength behind the Dragos Platform comes from our ability to codify Dragos's industry-leading OT threat intelligence, and insights from the Dragos services team, into the software. Our community-focused approach gives you access to the largest array of industrial organizations participating in collective defense, with the broadest visibility available.  Our solutions protect organizations across a range of industries, including electric, oil & gas, manufacturing, building automation systems, chemical, government, water, food & beverage, mining, transportation, and pharmaceutical. Dragos is privately held and headquartered in the Washington, DC area with regional presence around the world, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

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:
Dragos is seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineering Manager with a background in building and leading teams who develop microservice architectures, data processing pipelines, and extensible platform components. Backend Engineering is a critical dependency across the Dragos platform. As such, this role requires deep technical knowledge, excellent leadership skills, and strong business acumen. This person will manage the team responsible for developing and sustaining the backend components of the Dragos Platform. Focus areas include streaming data ingest, streaming detection processing, baseline learning, asset reconciliation, core platform APIs, and platform coordination across sensor/analytic deployments.

Responsibilities: 

  • Leadership and health of the Backend Engineering skill community
  • Mentor Engineering team members, especially their growth in technical expertise and career goals
  • Champion the vision and execution of the backend components of the Dragos Platform
  • Foster a strong technical community by developing close relationships amongst Engineering Leaders
  • Heavy collaboration with tech leads and Product Managers on product teams
  • Provide technical input/insight during software design, development, testing, and release
  • Ensure support for fielded production deployments

Qualifications: 

  • 7+ years of experience leading and building technical teams
  • 5+ years of experience developing and/or leading teams developing software applications with microservice architectures
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience as a software engineer, with strong fundamentals in backend system design, distributed systems, and production-grade development. Experience with Rust is strongly preferred, along with the ability to learn, adopt, and advocate for modern systems-level languages and architectures
  • Leadership experience within agile cross-functional teams
  • Familiarity with Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, or Hashicorp Vault
  • Comfortable stepping in when needed for occasional development, triage, or troubleshooting support
  • Experience working in cybersecurity, OT, or ICS environments

Compensation: 

  • Salary: $220,000
  • 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.

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