Data Engineering Manager

Dragos is a global xOT cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure systems from cyber threats. The Data Engineering Manager will lead teams responsible for detection, alerting, case management, and network-communications data pipelines while shaping the modernization of the data platform. The role also involves team growth, datastore migration, performance optimization, AI-assisted development adoption, and production support.

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 for the data platform: database version upgrades, migrating off legacy datastores, and shaping what powers heavy analytics going forward
• Collaborate with product and engineering to define data models, schemas, and analytics architecture
• Plan migration and reindex timing with product for customer-operated, on-prem deployments
• Drive performance optimization across the data platform these teams own
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows
• Own production support for fielded deployments, including incident response

Requirements:

• 7+ years of engineering management experience
• Management experience with Agile and working in cross-functional Product Teams
• Strong technical background in data-intensive systems, including production experience with PostgreSQL at scale
• Prior experience as an engineer with some combination of Elasticsearch, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and Rust
• Direct experience leading a team through migrating off a legacy datastore (MongoDB, MariaDB, or similar) into a modern architecture
• Experience shipping software onto customer-managed or on-prem infrastructure
• Hands-on daily use of AI-assisted development tools
• Comfortable reading code and debugging production issues directly
• Cybersecurity, SOC, or OT/ICS domain exposure