Aurora
Director, Security Operations & Detection Engineering
$223K–$396K
Mountain View, CA +2 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including 6+ years leading, managing, and scaling detection engineering and security operations teams.
About the job
Leads Aurora’s detection and response and security operations functions, setting strategy and managing teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats across vehicle, cloud, and enterprise environments.
What you'll do
- Lead and scale detection engineering, incident response, and 24x7 SOC teams and operations.
- Set strategy for threat detection, hunting, incident response, and security operations; oversee incident response and cloud vulnerability remediation.
- Report security operations metrics and coverage to executives, and serve as the executive contact for cybersecurity incidents and audits.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including 6+ years leading, managing, and scaling detection engineering and security operations teams.
- Current hands-on experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response; end-to-end incident management experience.
- Strong knowledge of SIEM, EDR, NDR/SOAR, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, macOS, Windows, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST CSF.
- Working proficiency in Python and/or C++; experience with vulnerability management, security metrics, security data lakes, Zero Trust Architecture, low-level data collection, distributed systems, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Nice to have
- Vehicle/embedded or OT security experience, or strong willingness to ramp up quickly in this area.
Pay
USD 247,000 - 396,000 per year base salary (Mountain View, CA and Seattle, WA); USD 223,000 - 357,000 per year base salary (Pittsburgh, PA)
Tools
SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, C++
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