Responsibilities
Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives — high-throughput ingestion improvements, pipeline scalability, continuous capture capability, and queue management reliability — in close collaboration with product, infrastructure, and engineering peers.
Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production and canary issues involving the capture pipeline, broker, shutdown behavior, and message broker integration.
Establish and champion standards for documentation, test harnesses, observability, and performance benchmarks across the sensor codebase.
Translate business goals (latency targets, new capture interface support, reliability SLOs) into concrete technical plans and delivery milestones.
Identify and close gaps in observability, reliability, and developer experience — building the tooling that helps the team diagnose production issues faster and ship with more confidence.
Elevate the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code review across all experience levels.
Qualifications
8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging distributed systems software.
Deep Rust expertise across asynchronous and concurrent programming, ownership discipline, and performance-sensitive systems design.
Demonstrated experience architecting or leading a significant systems initiative end-to-end, from design documentation through production deployment.
Strong grasp of concurrent system design: pipeline topologies, graceful shutdown sequencing, backpressure management, and active queue management.
Experience with high-performance packet capture and Linux systems programming for low-latency workloads.
Proven ability to lead root cause analysis on complex, multi-component failures and drive durable fixes that hold under production load.
Experience with message queuing or broker systems under production load.
Awareness of how sensor reliability and data fidelity directly affect detection quality in ICS/OT network monitoring environments.
Demonstrated experience applying cybersecurity best practices, including secure coding, data protection, and awareness of common threats and vulnerabilities.
Compensation
Salary: $192,000
Competitive Equity Package
Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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