Secure your critical infrastructure with Dragos, our industrial cybersecurity solutions provide unmatched visibility and threat detection for OT environments.
About the role
The Sensor Platform is the foundation of Dragos's threat detection capability — a high-performance, Linux-based network sensor that captures and processes traffic from operational technology (OT) and industrial control system (ICS) environments in real time.
What they're looking for
- 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
- 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
More about this role
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.
The Sensor Platform is the foundation of Dragos's threat detection capability — a high-performance, Linux-based network sensor that captures and processes traffic from operational technology (OT) and industrial control system (ICS) environments in real time.
As a Staff SDE on the Sensor team, you'll lead large-scale platform initiatives from design through...
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