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# Associate Principal Incident Responder at Dragos

- **Company:** Dragos
- **Location:** United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos/jobs/5362144008

## Job description

At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail, people are immediately at risk. We are the global leader in xOT cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what is at stake. Here, you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC built on authenticity, transparency, and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family, friends, and community is the kind of work that matters to you, you are in the right place.

About the Role:

Our Professional Services team is hiring an Associate Principal Incident Responder to lead Operational Technology (OT) incident response investigations and advance customer OT IR maturity. This is primarily an incident response role with a strong consulting component: you will lead active response engagements and deliver advisory work, including maturity assessments, incident response planning workshops, tabletop exercises, retainer onboarding, and purple team engagement.  You will be responsible for supporting improvements to the Dragos IR methodology.  You will represent Dragos as a thought leader through community engagement. This role suits practitioners who are equally strong at executing investigations and advising customers on strategy, and who treat incident response planning and maturity work as core expertise rather than a secondary responsibility.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and execute incident response engagements for OT customers as Incident Commander, including triage, investigations, threat hunts, compromise assessments, and on-call response across onsite and remote environments.
- Conduct post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and integrate lessons learned into playbooks, standard operating procedures, and response methodologies
- Develop and deliver advisory services including incident response planning workshops, maturity assessments, playbook design, and tabletop exercises that advance customer readiness.
- Manage customer relationships across onboarding, strategic advisory engagements, and stakeholder communication to align response capabilities with evolving business risk.
- Contribute to research, threat analysis, and thought leadership (whitepapers, webinars, presentations) that influence Dragos methodology and training.
- Mentor and develop teammates through hands-on training and incident guidance; serve as technical escalation point and role model for operational excellence.
- Drive delivery accountability for quality, timeliness, and utilization; partner with internal teams on service expansion, scalability improvements, and represent Dragos mission to customers and industry.

Qualifications:

- 8+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics experience with proficiency in at least two forensics domains (network, hardware, memory, disk) -- methodology is more important than tool specialization.
- Proven experience in ICS/OT cybersecurity including knowlege of industrial architecture, threat landscapes, vulnerabilities, and applicable frameworks and standards.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end investigations, correlate events across multiple data types, and uncover threats through methodical analysis and pivoting.
- Proven incident management and communication ability: able to manage coordination during incidents, guide customers calmly and confidently through high-pressure situations, and author customer-facing documentation, playbooks, and executive briefings.
- Consulting and advisory experience translating technical depth into strategic customer guidance, incident response planning, and recommendations for advancing incident readiness and response maturity.
- Ability to work independently and remotely while coordinating effectively across distributed teams.
- Willingness to travel up to 40% (domestic and some international),

Compensation:

- Salary: $170,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan

## #LI-JF1 #LI-REMOTE

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.

## About Dragos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dragos provides industrial cybersecurity technology and services to protect operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure from cyber threats.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; total funding $432.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Hanover, Maryland, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Robert M. Lee (CEO) and other cybersecurity experts

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Industrial cybersecurity (OT/ICS security)
- **Target customers**: B2B – electric utilities, oil & gas, manufacturing, water, transportation, mining, and government entities operating critical infrastructure.
- **Mission**: "To safeguard civilization from those trying to disrupt the industrial infrastructure we depend on every day." [dragos.com](https://www.dragos.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **[Dragos Platform]**: SaaS/on-premises platform for OT asset visibility, vulnerability management, threat detection, investigation, and response. Integrates with IT security tools and provides continuous threat intelligence. [dragos.com](https://www.dragos.com/)
- **Professional Services**: Incident response, penetration testing, consulting, and resident engineering.
- **Threat Intelligence**: Contextual reports and adversary tracking via the Dragos Threat Intelligence team.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Annual Revenue**: ~$100M (est. 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc.)
- **Total Funding**: $432.2M across Seed, Series A ($10M), Series B ($37M), Series C ($110M), Series D ($74M) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc.)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series D backed by a single large investor (likely Koch Disruptive Technologies); other investors from prior rounds include Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, AllegisCyber, and Energy Impact Partners. Strategic alliance with Accenture.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 14.6% YoY to 441 employees; active job postings increased 233% yearly; operates in 12 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **OT-specific expertise**: Founders and team have hands-on experience investigating landmark ICS attacks (e.g., Stuxnet, Triton, Colonial Pipeline).
- **Platform depth**: Combines asset discovery, vulnerability management, threat detection, and incident response in a single platform built for OT environments (not retrofitted IT tools).
- **Threat intelligence edge**: Continuous insights from a dedicated threat intelligence team that tracks adversary groups targeting industrial sectors.
- **Strong customer base**: Protects critical infrastructure in sectors like electric, oil & gas, and water across 12 countries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth priorities**: Expanding globally (recent offices in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore), investing in AI/cloud solutions (new Manager of AI and Cloud Solutions role), and deepening partnerships with systems integrators like Accenture.
- **Product direction**: Enhancing platform automation, cloud delivery, and machine learning for threat detection.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Employees directly protect systems that keep communities safe (hospitals, power, water). As stated on the careers page: "If protecting the systems that keep communities, friends, and family safe matters to you, this is where you belong." [dragos.com/careers](https://www.dragos.com/careers)
- **Remote-first culture**: The company is remote-first with offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
- **Values**: Transparency (no office politics), authenticity, trust, and mission-driven decision-making.
- **Compensation & culture**: Glassdoor-like rating of 4.0/5.0 (130 reviews) with work-life balance 4.1, culture 4.0, and competitive salaries (e.g., Senior Account Executive ~$124K, Senior Product Marketing Manager ~$182K). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc.)
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly hiring (30 open positions as of July 2025), with strong career progression in technical and sales roles.

## Sources
1. [dragos.com](https://www.dragos.com/)
2. [dragos.com/about](https://www.dragos.com/about)
3. [dragos.com/careers](https://www.dragos.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragos-inc.)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos)

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