Principal Data Engineer

Dragos is a global xOT cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure through technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The Principal Data Engineer will lead data-system modernization, develop governed and scalable pipelines across cloud and on-premises environments, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver analytics and data solutions for cybersecurity products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional efforts to re-architect or modernize core data systems
• Create sustainable data contracts that address data governance requirements
• Enable scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines that support both cloud and on-prem environments
• Implement real-time data processing solutions for configuration and asset communication pipelines
• Partner with leadership to align team efforts to broaden company data strategy
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver data solutions that enhance customer-facing products
• Establish and contribute to shared tooling for observability, lineage tracking, and configuration validation

Requirements:

• 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 languages
• Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from medium-to-large scale datasets, especially relevant if cybersecurity or industrial data
• Knowledge of integrating cloud and on-premises technologies in industrial environments, with deployments on Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with message queues, stream processing on deployable infrastructure
• Detailed domain familiarity and prior experience in at least one data-heavy field/product market segment, especially relevant if knowledgeable in cybersecurity threat detections, threat intelligence, or ICS/OT operations