Technical Lead, Principal Data Engineer
Dragos is on a relentless mission to defend industrial organizations that provide us with the necessities of modern civilization; running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. As the market leader in ICS/OT Cybersecurity, we are dedicated to arming our customers with best-in-class technology, threat intelligence, and services to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. We’re a remote-first culture with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. We’re looking for mission-oriented teammates who embody our core values of authenticity, transparency, and trust. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join a mission that can save the world! About the Role: You will be joining the Data Engineering Community that specializes in data pipeline design within a matrix style organization. This community serves as the connective tissue for aligning data strategy across diverse product-focused initiatives. You will serve as the Technical Lead for Vulnerability Management workflows, leading a cross-functional product team with your Product Manager partner to set technical strategy, drive architectural decisions, and ensure the team ships iteratively and reliably. As a Technical Lead, you will stay close to the work—remaining hands-on through coding, reviews, and pairing—so that your technical judgment reflects real implementation details, and your guidance helps the team make sound, intentional design choices early. Responsibilities: As a Principal Data Engineer within the Data Engineering Community, you will:
- Lead cross-functional efforts to modernize and improve core data systems.
- Align priorities and sequencing with leadership and product teams.
- Set technical direction and ensure clear designs before implementation.
- Define and maintain sustainable data contracts used across teams.
- Build scalable, secure data pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Deliver real-time data processing capabilities through iterative, production-safe changes.
- Support customer-facing features by collaborating directly with product engineering teams.
- Develop shared tooling for observability, lineage, and configuration validation.
- Stay hands-on through coding and reviews to keep decisions grounded.
- Identify risks early, prevent technical issues from escalating, and maintain delivery stability.
- Communicate clearly in architecture discussions and design reviews.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of data engineering experience.
- Architecture expertise creating scalable systems, designing efficient data storage and processing systems.
- Expertise in data modeling including incremental models, dimensional models, network topologies and graph structures.
- Cross-functional communication skills.
- Skilled in implementing data observability frameworks, designing robust data contracts, and optimizing data structures for performance and scalability.
- Software development skills in Rust, Go, JVM-family, Python, and/or Node.js.
- Experience with medium-to-large scale datasets, particularly cybersecurity or industrial data.
- Knowledge of integrating cloud and on-prem technologies with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with message queues and deployable stream processing infrastructure.
- Domain familiarity with cybersecurity threat detection, threat intelligence, or ICS/OT operations.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction through clear, well-reasoned architectural decisions.
- Hands on engineering experience that grounds decisions in practical implementation details.
- Experience breaking down complex efforts into iterative, production safe deliverables and identifying risks early in the process.
Compensation:
- Salary: $225,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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