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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 7 days Dragos's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Dragos's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Dragos
- high 29 stale, 2 reposted of 56 open
- Hiring momentum
- 84 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Dragos's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Dragos.
About this role
As a Staff Software Development Engineer (SDE) on the Sensor team at Dragos, you will lead initiatives to enhance the Sensor Platform, which is crucial for threat detection in operational technology environments. Your responsibilities will include overseeing system design and production deployment, conducting root cause analyses, and improving observability and reliability within the system. You will also mentor team members and ensure that engineering decisions align with business goals.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Dragos as an employer.
What you need
- 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 low-latency workloads
- Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex, multi-component failures and drive durable fixes that hold under production load
Nice to have
- Experience with eBPF or XDP for kernel-bypass packet processing, AF_XDP socket programming, or high-speed capture at the Linux data plane
- Prior work in ICS/OT environments, industrial network protocol analysis, or OT security tooling
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized sensor deployments, or edge infrastructure
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, structured logging, or distributed tracing in production systems
- Prior experience in a security-focused product engineering environment
What you get
- Salary: $192,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
Worth weighing
- Remote-first work environment may require strong self-management skills
- Focus on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure may involve high-stakes responsibilities
- No specific information on career advancement opportunities or team size is provided
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Listed by Dragos on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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