Dragos
Staff Device Engineer
United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsCode ReviewDockerLinuxCybersecurityEmbedded SystemsTCP/IPResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- We're seeking a highly skilled Staff Device Engineer to join our Device Engineering team as a strong individual contributor.
- In this role, you will tackle the toughest reverse engineering, fingerprinting, and automated control challenges across the network-connected devices that power critical industrial environments.
Responsibilities
- Drive identification and fingerprint network-connected devices across embedded, IoT, and OT/ICS endpoints
- Write efficient, well-documented production code that other engineers can build on with confidence
- Build and improve internal tooling and automation that accelerates the Device Engineering team
- Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and grow the technical depth of the team through pairing, design reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, reverse engineering, threat research, and customer-facing teams to translate field needs into engineering outcomes
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping production systems and owning complex technical work
- Proficiency with relational databases, including schema design and query optimization for large datasets
- Working proficiency with Docker and containerized development and deployment workflows
- Deep expertise developing and debugging in Node.js, with strong fundamentals in modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Strong reverse engineering skills, including network protocol analysis, traffic capture interpretation, and device behavior reconstruction
- Strong command of Unix/Linux environments, including systems-level debugging and performance analysis
- Solid understanding of network transport and application layer protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP, and common embedded/industrial protocols)
- Strong command of regular expressions and pattern-based parsing for protocol and device fingerprinting
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical design discussions, and influence direction across teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving, remote-first environment
Nice to have
- experience with ICS/OT environments, embedded systems, or xIoT device security
Benefits
- Design and maintain automated test cases and frameworks that ensure the integrity of our device coverage
Company info
- Leverage AI tools and coding assistants as a core part of your day-to-day engineering workflow-including reverse engineering research, code generation, debugging, test creation, and documentation
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