Director, Engineering

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Dragos

Dragos

Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding civilization by securing industrial assets across vertical industries. Their integrated software platform provides critical visibility into ICS and OT networks, enabling clients in p...

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2016
$438M raised

Description

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering managers and own their performance, growth, and effectiveness.
  • Provide technical guidance on software design, architecture, code quality, testing strategy, and code review discipline.
  • Set standards for AI-assisted engineering and roll out development tooling and responsible usage practices.
  • Drive department-wide initiatives on engineering standards, delivery practices, tooling, onboarding, and technical debt reduction.
  • Partner with product directors to staff and support cross-functional product teams and balance capacity with roadmap commitments.
  • Coach tech leads and engineers to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable software.
  • Own the long-term health, operational readiness, and support of the services and codebases your organization manages.
  • Build strong working relationships across engineering, product, and the broader business to resolve conflicts and escalate when needed.
  • Own technical hiring, including shaping roles, running interview panels, and improving selection and onboarding.

Requirements

  • 8+ years leading software engineering teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
  • Experience leading an engineering organization of 20+ people across multiple teams.
  • Strong technical background as a practicing software engineer with fluency across frontend, data, networking, backend, and related architectures.
  • Demonstrated fluency with AI development tooling, including coding assistants, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted review and test generation.
  • Cybersecurity experience at a product company shipping commercial software to external customers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at executive, peer, and technical levels.
  • Experience supporting agile, cross-functional teams that pair engineering with product management.
  • Experience with performance evaluation, promotion recommendations, and performance improvement processes.
  • Experience with OT or ICS environments, threat detection, or asset visibility products (preferred).
  • Experience integrating engineering teams following an acquisition (preferred).

Benefits

  • $260,000 salary.
  • Competitive equity package.
  • Comprehensive benefits plan.
  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Mission-driven, globally distributed team.
  • Equal opportunity employer.
  • Background check required as a condition of employment.

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