Aurora
Staff Security Software Engineer
$171K–$303K
Mountain View, CA +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- Minimum 2 years in a security-specific or security-adjacent industry and minimum 8 years of software engineering development.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs and develops security frameworks and systems for Aurora’s autonomous vehicle platform and the cloud services it communicates with.
What you'll do
- Architect and lead hands-on implementation of vehicle security systems supporting Aurora’s Safety Case.
- Integrate security capabilities with partner teams, vehicle platform partners, and OEMs.
- Contribute to security architecture, reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and release security; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Production-quality C++ development expertise.
- At least 2 years of experience in a security-specific or security-adjacent industry.
- At least 8 years of software engineering development experience.
Nice to have
- Golang experience.
- Experience with software and service security evaluation, embedded or hardware security, fuzzers, AWS/cloud security, infrastructure-as-code, TPMs, HSMs, or trusted boot.
Pay
USD 189,000 - USD 303,000 per year (base salary); USD 171,000 - USD 273,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C++, Golang, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, Trusted Platform Modules, HSMs
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