Data Engineering Manager

Role Description

We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team of data engineers responsible for the core data layer underpinning our products, with direct influence on our analytics, asset, and vulnerability engineering teams, amongst others. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge of distributed data systems, exceptional leadership skills, and a proven ability to develop high-performing teams, grounded in real cybersecurity or SOC domain experience. This role will also drive modernization efforts across the platform to improve performance and resource efficiency, and will champion the team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, driving their technical growth and professional development.
• Drive hiring and team growth to scale with roadmap demands.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the data platform, driving modernization initiatives that improve performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define data models, schemas, and analytics architecture across the teams this role influences.
• Partner with detection engineering and other security stakeholders to ensure data quality, freshness, and reliability for threat-detection and analysis workflows.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization strategies for data pipelines and storage systems.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the team to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Provide guidance during software design, development, testing, and release.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects, balancing technical debt and innovation.
• Own production support for fielded deployments, including incident response and on-call coverage for the data platform.
• Foster a strong technical community by developing close relationships amongst Engineering Managers.
• Stay current with emerging data technologies, frameworks, and best practices to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, consistently building and leading highly effective teams.
• Management experience with Agile and working in cross-functional Product Teams.
• Cybersecurity or SOC (Security Operations Center) experience required with knowledge of threat detection, threat intelligence, vulnerability/asset intelligence, or ICS/OT security.
• Strong technical background in distributed data systems.
• Prior experience as an engineer with strong working knowledge of technologies such as the Elastic Stack, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and dbt.
• Rust experience strongly preferred.
• Heavy hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows (e.g., LLM-based coding assistants, AI-driven data tooling), with a track record of driving adoption across a team.
• Comfortable with hands-on development or troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and presentation skills.

Requirements

• Salary: $220,000
• Competitive Equity Package
• Comprehensive Benefits Plan

Company Description

Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.