Are you skilled in analyzing and breaking down complex real-world data samples into components like protocol, cardinality, and throughput? Do you love the challenge of putting together synthetic data sets that model current and predictive customer usage of an Industrial Cybersecurity platform that is helping safeguard civilization?

Dragos has an opportunity for a Principal Data Science Engineer to join our growing team of talented Engineers making great contributions to our mission of Safeguarding Civilization! As a Principal Data Science Engineer, you will maintain a cataloged library of PCAPs from customers representing all of our verticals, geolocations, and sizes. You will create synthetic workloads using Breaking Point or similar that map to a customer's PCAPs. You will work with our detection engineers on injecting data that triggers our analytics to ensure that we are testing with controlled data that represents our customers now and tomorrow, from their best-case scenarios to their worst-case and everything in-between.

This is a principal level position embedded in our Performance Engineering Team that will drive and impact across Development and Quality Engineering, and collaborate with our R&D and Intel teams to ensure all data used in testing is maintained and updated so we always have an up-to-date representation of our customer data, as well as an understanding of how we handle abusive data, all in a controlled and documented fashion.

Must be able to work in the US, Canada, or Australia without current or future sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Work with Field Operations and Sales to gather network traffic profiles from customers
• Analyze and catalog customer PCAPs to understand protocols and data flows
• Develop customer use cases and synthetic network traffic profiles based on different customer industry verticals, geolocations, sizes, and implementations to be used in functional, E2E validation, performance testing
• Extrapolate network data into synthetic traffic streams to be used in Performance and detection testing
• Develop strong relationships with Field Operations, Solution Architecture, Development, and Detection Engineering teams
• Develop and foster relationships with key customers, internal and external, and work together to gather meaningful and mutually beneficial data for analysis
• Assist in test strategy development to ensure we are continually meeting customer needs and current/ planned use cases

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in network traffic analysis and data science
• Strong experience in network traffic and protocol analysis using tools such as Wireshark
• Strong technical writing skills to articulate customer environments, network traffic profiles, and use cases
• Experience working with Agile/SAFe methodologies
• Strong knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, Linux, UNIX, Routers, Switches, and security domains (Firewall, IPS, IDS)
• Experience in automation framework with Python, Pytest, or similar
• Designing, building, and maintaining test environments (Both automated and manual testing)
• Design and Implement test cases for systems with REST APIs
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket

Compensation

• Base Salary: $228,000
• Base + Benefits + Equity = $385,000
• Comprehensive benefits plan (medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401K with match)
• Equity at Dragos is quickly growing and the total compensation under-represents the future growth and refresh program. This will be discussed on the first call with the Dragos recruiter.

Dragos is the Industrial Cybersecurity expert on a relentless mission to safeguard civilization. In a world of rising cybersecurity threats, Dragos protects the most critical infrastructure – those that provide us with the tenets of modern civilization – from increasingly capable adversaries who wish to do it harm. Devoted to codifying and sharing our in-depth industry knowledge of ICS/OT systems, Dragos arms industrial defenders around the world with the knowledge and tools to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. Founded by world-class industrial intelligence experts, Dragos has the industry’s largest team of ICS/OT practitioners who have been on the front lines of the world’s most significant industrial cyber-attacks.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core values at Dragos, and we are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment for all. We know that every member of our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions. Not only does a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion focus enrich our environment and teams, but it is also critical to our success as we defend against adversaries all over the world. The broad range of ideas, experiences, and perspectives is critical to our success.

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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