This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and nurture the health of the Backend Engineering skill community.

• Guide Engineering team members in their technical development and career aspirations.

• Advocate for the vision and implementation of the backend components of the Dragos Platform.

• Cultivate a robust technical community by fostering relationships among Engineering Leaders.

• Collaborate extensively with tech leads and Product Managers within product teams.

• Provide technical insights during software design, development, testing, and release phases.

• Ensure support for production deployments that are currently in the field.

• Lead the team responsible for developing and maintaining backend platform components, including streaming data ingestion, streaming detection processing, baseline learning, asset reconciliation, core platform APIs, and coordination across sensor/analytic deployments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in leading and building technical teams.

• More than 5 years of experience in developing and/or leading teams that create software applications utilizing microservice architectures.

• Proven hands-on experience as a software engineer, with a solid foundation in backend system design, distributed systems, and production-quality development.

• Proficiency in Rust is highly preferred, alongside the capability to learn, adopt, and promote modern systems-level languages and architectures.

• Leadership experience in agile, cross-functional teams.

• Familiarity with tools such as Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, or Hashicorp Vault.

• Willingness to step in for occasional development, triage, or troubleshooting support when necessary.

• Background in cybersecurity, OT, or ICS environments is preferred.

• All new hires are required to pass a background check as a condition of employment.