Staff Security Engineer Cloud Detection and Response
Aurora develops and commercially operates AI-powered self-driving freight technology through its Aurora Driver system.
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About Aurora Innovation, Inc.
Aurora is a public autonomous-vehicle technology company focused on self-driving freight. Its Aurora Driver combines hardware and AI software to operate trucks and underpins its driver-as-a-service trucking product.
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About the Role
You will lead cross-functional initiatives that improve detection infrastructure, telemetry collection, log normalization, and detection-as-code pipelines. You will design and tune cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and CI/CD detections; conduct threat hunting; respond to incidents; and mentor SOC engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of security experience
- Experience leading cross-functional security projects or programs
- Threat detection and incident response expertise
- Cloud security expertise
- Experience with SIEM or security data lake pipelines, log onboarding, normalization, and detection-as-code workflows
- EDR and SaaS security monitoring expertise
- Experience authoring and maintaining detections
- Incident management experience
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, adversarial techniques, and NIST CSF
- Ability to write testable Python code
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional detection infrastructure projects
- Expand detection coverage across cloud and corporate environments
- Design, build, and tune security detections
- Embed logging and detection requirements into system designs
- Integrate threat intelligence and adversary emulation into coverage priorities
- Conduct proactive threat hunting
- Respond to cloud and enterprise security incidents
- Participate in an on-call rotation
- Mentor SOC engineers
- Contribute to detection planning
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation
- Benefits
