Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Dragos
$192,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on designing and building high-performance systems in Rust for an industrial cybersecurity platform. Day-to-day work spans architecting and optimizing backend services within a microservices environment, participating in the full development lifecycle, and contributing to technical decision-making. Suited to experienced backend engineers comfortable with relational and NoSQL databases who are willing to engage beyond pure coding.
Staff level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,400–6,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posted salary is a single point figure ($192,000) with no stated range; min and max are both set to 192,000.
Rust is listed in Minimum Qualifications with the phrasing 'Solid experience and understanding of Rust' — no explicit year count is given, so the years demanded is left null.
'Experience incorporating AI tools, models, or services into development workflows' appears in Minimum Qualifications and is treated as a hard gate; it names no specific product, so it is captured generically as 'AI tools'.
Kotlin, Go, and Python appear together under Additional Qualifications as interchangeable production-language options; they are emitted as one preferred skill with alternatives.
The role title is explicitly 'Staff Software Engineer' and the scope (cross-team backend community, leading technical decisions) supports the Staff band.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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