Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Detection & Response

Aurora•Mountain View, CA

11d•$171,000 - $303,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone. At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. We're searching for a Staff Cybersecurity Engineer to help mature Cloud & Enterprise Detection within our Detection & Response (D&R) team, under the Technical Assurance division. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on driving cross-functional projects that strengthen Aurora's detection infrastructure and expand detection coverage across our cloud infrastructure, enterprise environments. You will scope and lead multi-quarter initiatives that raise the maturity of our detection program and powering detection at scale, executing through your own hands-on work and through close partnership with Cloud Infrastructure, IT, and Platform Engineering teams.

Requirements

10+ years of security experience; demonstrated experience leading cross-functional security projects or programs from scoping through delivery
Strong technical foundation in threat detection, incident response
Expertise with cloud security across one or more major providers, including cloud-native telemetry and detection sources
Experience building or maturing detection infrastructure - SIEM or security data lake pipelines, log onboarding and normalization, detection-as-code workflows
Expertise with endpoint detection and response (EDR) and SaaS security monitoring, or comparable host and application telemetry depth
Expertise authoring and maintaining detections (anomalous, network, host, identity, or cloud activity) and measuring detection coverage against adversary behavior
Experience with incident management, driving cross-departmental collaboration for containment and remediation
Expertise with MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern adversarial techniques; understanding of NIST CSF
Ability to write quality, testable code in Python

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and implementing Zero Trust Architecture
Experience scaling SOC, Detection Engineering with AI/LLM
Experience building and architecting data lakes
Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

Responsibilities

Drive cross-functional projects to mature Aurora's detection infrastructure, log ingestion and normalization, detection-as-code pipelines with testing, versioning, and CI/CD for detection content, and scalable, cost-aware telemetry collection
Expand detection coverage across cloud and corporate environments and prioritize coverage improvements
Design, build, and tune detections for cloud control plane and workload activity, identity-based attacks, endpoint, SaaS threats, abuse of CI/CD and service-to-service communication paths
Partner with Cloud Infrastructure, IT, and Platform Engineering to embed logging and detection requirements into system design, and represent D&R in cross-functional working groups and design reviews
Integrate threat intelligence and adversary emulation into detection coverage priorities, and conduct proactive threat hunting across cloud, identity, endpoint, and SaaS data
Respond to cloud and enterprise security incidents and participate in an on-call rotation, feeding lessons learned back into detection coverage and infrastructure improvements
Collaborate with and mentor SOC engineers on cloud and enterprise detection practices, and contribute to quarterly planning for detection infrastructure and coverage initiatives