Aurora Innovation
Director, Security Operations & Detection Engineering
$223K–$396K
Mountain View, CA +2 · Hybrid · 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 engineering and security operations organization, directing threat detection, investigation, and response across vehicle, cloud, and enterprise environments.
What you'll do
- Lead and scale detection engineering, incident response, and 24x7 SOC teams, staffing, and operations.
- Set strategy for detection, threat hunting, incident response, and security operations; oversee incident response and cloud vulnerability remediation.
- Guide security tooling and cross-functional projects, and report operational metrics and maturity to executives.
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; experience managing high-severity incidents and vulnerability remediation.
- Working knowledge of SIEM, EDR, NDR/SOAR, cloud-native environments, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST CSF.
- Working proficiency in Python and/or C++; experience building security metrics/reporting programs.
Nice to have
- Vehicle/embedded or OT security experience, or strong willingness to ramp up quickly.
Pay
$247,000 - $396,000 per year (base salary); $223,000 - $357,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Python
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