# Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Detection & Response at Aurora

- Company: Aurora
- What the company does: Step inside the world of self-driving freight, powered by the Aurora Driver. Delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Backed by Greylock, Index and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://aurora.tech/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $189K to $303K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aurora-operations-inc/60b9d1e2-8295-4346-990d-4f6c7c794cc8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aurora-staff-security-engineer-cloud-detection-and-response/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Enterprise IT & Security