Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Detection & Response

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What we are looking for

We're searching for a Staff Cybersecurity Engineer to help mature Cloud & Enterprise Detection within our Detection & Response (D&R) team, under the Technical Assurance division. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on driving cross-functional projects that strengthen Aurora's detection infrastructure and expand detection coverage across our cloud infrastructure, enterprise environments. You will scope and lead multi-quarter initiatives that raise the maturity of our detection program and powering detection at scale, executing through your own hands-on work and through close partnership with Cloud Infrastructure, IT, and Platform Engineering teams.

In this role you will

• Drive cross-functional projects to mature Aurora's detection infrastructure, log ingestion and normalization, detection-as-code pipelines with testing, versioning, and CI/CD for detection content, and scalable, cost-aware telemetry collection

• Expand detection coverage across cloud and corporate environments and prioritize coverage improvements

• Design, build, and tune detections for cloud control plane and workload activity, identity-based attacks, endpoint, SaaS threats, abuse of CI/CD and service-to-service communication paths

• Partner with Cloud Infrastructure, IT, and Platform Engineering to embed logging and detection requirements into system design, and represent D&R in cross-functional working groups and design reviews

• Integrate threat intelligence and adversary emulation into detection coverage priorities, and conduct proactive threat hunting across cloud, identity, endpoint, and SaaS data

• Respond to cloud and enterprise security incidents and participate in an on-call rotation, feeding lessons learned back into detection coverage and infrastructure improvements

• Collaborate with and mentor SOC engineers on cloud and enterprise detection practices, and contribute to quarterly planning for detection infrastructure and coverage initiatives

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of security experience; demonstrated experience leading cross-functional security projects or programs from scoping through delivery

• Strong technical foundation in threat detection, incident response

• Expertise with cloud security across one or more major providers, including cloud-native telemetry and detection sources

• Experience building or maturing detection infrastructure - SIEM or security data lake pipelines, log onboarding and normalization, detection-as-code workflows

• Expertise with endpoint detection and response (EDR) and SaaS security monitoring, or comparable host and application telemetry depth

• Expertise authoring and maintaining detections (anomalous, network, host, identity, or cloud activity) and measuring detection coverage against adversary behavior

• Experience with incident management, driving cross-departmental collaboration for containment and remediation

• Expertise with MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern adversarial techniques; understanding of NIST CSF

• Ability to write quality, testable code in Python

Desirable qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing Zero Trust Architecture

• Experience scaling SOC, Detection Engineering with AI/LLM

• Experience building and architecting data lakes

• Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

For roles based in San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA, and Seattle, WA: The salary range for this position is $189,000 - $303,000 per year.

For roles based in Pittsburgh, PA,: The salary range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000 per year.

Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.

We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy, and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, Aurorans are expected to work from the office at least 3 days per week, with some roles requiring more frequent in-office presence, up to 5 days per week, based on operational needs.

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At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization’s long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what.

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