Staff Software Engineer - Backend Networking

Dragos is a cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure systems globally. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Sensor Platform team, you will lead large-scale platform initiatives for a high-performance, Linux-based network sensor that captures and processes traffic from operational technology and industrial control system environments in real time.

* Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives including high-throughput ingestion improvements, pipeline scalability, continuous capture capability, and queue management reliability in collaboration with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams * Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues involving the capture pipeline, message broker integration, and shutdown behavior * Establish and champion standards for documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase * Translate business goals such as latency targets, new capture interface support, and reliability SLOs into concrete technical plans and delivery milestones * Identify and close gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience by building tooling to help the team diagnose production issues faster and ship with more confidence * Elevate the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code review across all experience levels

* 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 including pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management * Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads * Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex, multi-component failures and drive durable fixes 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 common threats and vulnerabilities

Salary $192,000, competitive equity package, comprehensive benefits plan

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