Director, Engineering

Dragos
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 260,000+ annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Negotiation","Technical judgment"]

Lead a multi-team engineering organization building and sustaining OT cybersecurity products, including the Dragos Platform. Manage and develop engineering managers across discipline-based communities (frontend, backend, data, AI), providing hands-on technical guidance on architecture, code quality, testing, and reviews. Drive engineering standards, tooling, onboarding, and technical-debt reduction while partnering with product directors to staff cross-functional teams and ensure long-term service health.

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Dragos
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Director, Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead a multi-team engineering organization building and sustaining OT cybersecurity products, including the Dragos Platform. Manage and develop engineering managers across discipline-based communities (frontend, backend, data, AI), providing hands-on technical guidance on architecture, code quality, testing, and reviews. Drive engineering standards, tooling, onboarding, and technical-debt reduction while partnering with product directors to staff cross-functional teams and ensure long-term service health.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers responsible for discipline-based engineering communities.
  • •Provide technical guidance on software design and architecture, code quality practices, and testing strategy, including design/code reviews.
  • •Set standards for AI-assisted engineering, evaluating and rolling out AI development tooling and defining responsible practices.
  • •Drive key engineering initiatives across the department, partnering with engineering peers on standards, delivery practices, tooling, onboarding, and technical-debt reduction.
  • •Partner with product directors to staff and support cross-functional product teams, balancing capacity and resolving competing priorities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
  • •Experience leading an engineering organization of 20+ people across multiple teams.
  • •Strong software engineering background spanning both frontend and backend architecture.
  • •Demonstrated fluency with AI development tooling (coding assistants, agentic workflows) and knowledge of responsible AI-assisted review/testing.
  • •Cybersecurity experience shipping commercial software to external customers, plus strong communication and agile cross-functional experience.
Experience:CybersecurityXOT cybersecurityOT/ICSCommercial softwareAI-assisted engineering
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationNegotiationTechnical judgment
Tech Stack:AI-assisted engineeringCoding assistantsAgentic workflowsAI-assisted reviewAI-assisted test generation

Company Brief

Dragos
Provides industrial cybersecurity solutions protecting operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) with threat detection, incident response, and asset visibility to secure critical infrastructure and manufacturing environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
Founded: 2016
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