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Systems Engineering Manager

Dragos, Inc.
United States, Maryland, Hanover
1745 Dorsey Road (Show on map)
Mar 06, 2026
Dragos is on a relentless mission to defend industrial organizations that provide us with the necessities of modern civilization; running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. As the market leader in ICS/OT Cybersecurity, we are dedicated to arming our customers with best-in-class technology, threat intelligence, and services to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. We're a remote-first culture with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. We're looking for mission-oriented teammates who embody our core values of authenticity, transparency, and trust. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join a mission that can save the world! About the Role: We are seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Systems Engineering (SENG) skill community, consisting of a wide variety of domains: System Architecture and Security, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and many others. This leader willbe responsible fordeveloping engineers, strengthening technical execution, and ensuringhigh standardsof delivery across platform and product initiatives. This role blendspeopleleadership, technical oversight, and operational discipline. The ideal candidate understands how to build durable, efficient, and scalable systems, coach engineers toward technical maturity, andoperatein a product-aligned engineering model. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and other Engineering Managers to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. Responsibilities: Manage and mentor Systems Engineers across multiple product initiatives. Provide clear performance expectations, coaching, and career development. Foster accountability, ownership, and technical rigor while building a resilient, high-trust engineering culture. Ensurestrong design discipline and drive iterative development with clear demo scripts and early-access validation. Support scalable system architecture decisions aligned to long-term platform and business goals. Collaborate with Product and Technical Leads to translate roadmap goals into executable plans. Strengthen cross-functional alignment and clarity across engineering skill communities. Reinforce core engineering expectations around documentation, testing, and iterative delivery. Help mature systems reliability, performance, and scalability practices while modeling clear, concise communication and leadership. Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering, with 2+ years leading engineers. Experience building oroperatingdistributed systems, platform services, or backend systems. Strong understanding of stable, resilient, and scalable system architecture design. A bias fortaking action to mitigaterisks before software and infrastructure is fielded in production. Demonstrated ability to coach engineers toward higher standards of execution. Clear, direct communication style with comfortoperating in ambiguity. Experience partnering closely with Product in a product-team model. Ability to balance technical oversight with empowering autonomy. Compensation: Salary: $220,000 Competitive Equity Package Comprehensive Benefits Plan #LI-JF1 #LI-REMOTE #LI-NH1 #LI-REMOTE Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.