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Aurora Innovation, Inc.

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Staff Security Engineer Cloud Detection and Response

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You will lead cross-functional initiatives that improve detection infrastructure, telemetry collection, log normalization, and detection-as-code pipelines. You will design and tune cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and CI/CD detections; conduct threat hunting; respond to incidents; and mentor SOC engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional detection infrastructure projects
  • Expand detection coverage across cloud and corporate environments
  • Design, build, and tune security detections
  • Embed logging and detection requirements into system designs
  • Integrate threat intelligence and adversary emulation into coverage priorities
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting
  • Respond to cloud and enterprise security incidents
  • Participate in an on-call rotation
  • Mentor SOC engineers
  • Contribute to detection planning

Requirements

  • 10+ years of security experience
  • Experience leading cross-functional security projects or programs
  • Threat detection and incident response expertise
  • Cloud security expertise
  • Experience with SIEM or security data lake pipelines, log onboarding, normalization, and detection-as-code workflows
  • EDR and SaaS security monitoring expertise
  • Experience authoring and maintaining detections
  • Incident management experience
  • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, adversarial techniques, and NIST CSF
  • Ability to write testable Python code

Benefits

  • Annual bonus
  • Equity compensation
  • Benefits

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