Aurora Innovation
Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Detection & Response
$171K–$303K
Mountain View, CA +5 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Livonia, MI
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas, TX
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 10+ years of security experience.
About the job
Leads hands-on and cross-functional initiatives to strengthen Aurora’s cloud and enterprise detection infrastructure, coverage, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Build and improve detection infrastructure, log pipelines, and detection-as-code workflows; expand and prioritize detection coverage.
- Author and tune detections, integrate threat intelligence, conduct threat hunts, and respond to security incidents, including on-call participation.
- Partner with engineering and IT teams on logging and detection design, and mentor SOC engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of security experience and experience leading cross-functional security projects or programs from scoping through delivery.
- Strong foundation in threat detection and incident response; expertise with cloud security and cloud-native telemetry.
- Experience building or maturing detection infrastructure and expertise authoring detections and measuring coverage.
- Expertise with EDR and SaaS monitoring or comparable telemetry; MITRE ATT&CK expertise, NIST CSF understanding, and ability to write testable Python code.
Nice to have
- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture, SOC or detection engineering with AI/LLM, or data lakes.
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Pay
$189,000 - $303,000 per year (base salary); $171,000 - $273,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, SIEM, EDR, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, AI/LLM
AI focus
Preferred experience scaling SOC or Detection Engineering with AI/LLM.
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