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:
Dragos is seeking a Staff Front End Engineer to join our UI Community and help build and evolve the user experience layer of our OT Security Platform. We work in a matrix-style engineering organization, meaning you will be part of the UI Community while embedded within one or more product teams as needed.
As a Staff Engineer, you will operate beyond feature delivery. You will architect and evolve scalable UI systems, establish standards, and influence technical direction across teams to ensure Dragos delivers consistent, high-quality experiences at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Architecting and evolving scalable UI frameworks and product subsystems that support the growth of the Dragos Platform.
- Driving technical strategy and setting standards for performance, testing, and maintainability across the UI Community.
- Leading cross-team initiatives to improve workflows, tooling, and platform reliability.
- Partnering with Product and Design to align system-level architecture with user experience goals.
- Coding, testing, and debugging critical applications while guiding engineering teams on best practices.
- Reviewing designs and implementations across multiple teams to ensure technical quality.
- Championing accessibility, performance optimization, and user-centered design at scale.
- Mentoring engineers across the UI Community and helping shape its technical direction.
Qualifications:
- 6-8+ years of experience with modern front-end stacks (React, TypeScript, Redux, etc.).
- Proven experience architecting scalable systems and leading technical direction for front-end applications.
- Deep understanding of performance optimization and scalable UI architecture.
- Strong leadership skills, with experience mentoring and influencing engineers across teams.
- Experience with build tools (Vite, Turbo, Rollup, Webpack) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket).
- Actively use AI-assisted development tools and set expectations for their effective, secure, and scalable adoption across teams to raise overall engineering efficiency and quality.
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (Jest, RTL, Playwright).
Additional Qualifications That Will Help You Succeed:
- Experience leading or building design system initiatives.
- Familiarity with design tools such as Figma.
- Experience working with backend systems and API design.
- Recognized ability to influence and set technical standards across teams or communities.
Compensation:
- Salary: $192,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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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.
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