Threat Intelligence Engineer

Do you want to make a meaningful contribution to society by securing critical infrastructure and knowing that your work was impactful? Our software codifies our knowledge and experience, delivering an intelligent, orchestrated, and automated approach to asset protection, threat detection, analysis, and response. The Dragos Platform is not just an application we sell to our customers, it is the solution that our Threat Operations Center (TOC) uses; a scalable tool able to protect the most sophisticated ICS infrastructures.  Dragos is looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic threat intelligence engineer interested in developing solutions to help safeguard the world’s industrial infrastructure in a highly collaborative team at Dragos. We set our goal as best in class and are looking for team players who set these same standards for themselves.
This position is available either in Hanover, MD or remote.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal Intelligence team to focus on understanding workflow of the threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and malware analysis teams.
• Work with engineering team but be fully committed to the needs of the intelligence team. The goal is to streamline their workflow to make them more productive. Identify problems, resolve them, automate them, repeat.
• Design and build modular components.
• Design, implement and build ReactJS browser applications.
• Responsible for frontend and backend development.
• Participate in interactions with analysts and customers as a technical expert for product subsystems.
• Code, test and debug applications using Unit and Automated Testing procedures.
• Participate in peer code reviews and pull requests.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience as a full stack engineer on an Agile/Scrum team.
• 5+ years’ experience working in cybersecurity / threat intelligence community.
• Firm understanding of Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) and how to leverage threat intelligence APIs.
• Strong knowledge with high-level object-oriented programming language.
• Strong knowledge of building and interacting with REST APIs.
• Experience with frontend JavaScript framework (working knowledge of React and/or AngularJS is a plus).
• Experience with unit and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Ability to multitask on several complex programming assignments while simultaneously balancing multiple deadlines and priorities.
• Personal initiative, self-motivation, and results-oriented work ethic and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• US Permanent Resident, US Citizen, or Canadian Citizen (Must be able to pass background checks).

Preferred Skills

• Experience with MVC framework.
• Experience with AWS services: ECS, EC2, ECR, RDS, S3, SES, Lambda (any/all).
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with React JavaScript framework.
• Experience with AngularJS JavaScript framework.

Our mission at Dragos is to protect the world’s most critical infrastructure from adversaries who wish to do it harm. We help defend industrial organizations that provide us with the tenets of modern civilization: running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. We are practitioners who have lived through and solved real security challenges. Our team members have responded to incidents including the Ukraine 2015 power grid attack, analyzed the CRASHOVERRIDE malware responsible for the Ukraine 2016 electric grid attack, analyzed the TRISIS malware responsible for the petrochemical facility attack in 2017, built and led the National Security Agency mission to identify nation-states breaking into ICS, and performed assessments on hundreds of assets around the world.
Dragos seeks passionate, hard-working, fun-loving, small-ego, big-brained people. Our tagline is “Safeguarding Civilization” not because we think highly of ourselves, but because the problems we are solving are critically important, today and in the years to come. We offer competitive salaries, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K and life insurance.
Dragos is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Come join us!