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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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