Aurora Innovation

Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Operations

Aurora Innovation
US Detroit, MI, US
Onsite 2026-06-25
Announced salary
$171k–$273k
Low
$77K
Median
$105K
High
$139K
Market in Detroit · BLS OEWS 2025

Job description

**Who we are** 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. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn. **What we are looking for** Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We're searching for a **Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Operations** to join our **Enterprise Security Engineering** team, reporting to the Technical Lead Manager of Security Engineering. **This position is open to the following office locations:** Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Detroit, and Phoenix. Aurora is scaling its autonomous trucking operations, and we need someone who makes our security tools actually work, not just deployed, but deeply configured, continuously tuned, and fully leveraged. This role is for the practitioner who has spent their career living inside security platforms: the person who knows their EDR better than the vendor's own support team, who can write a SIEM query from memory, and who instinctively knows when an alert is misfiring and exactly why. This is not a software engineering role. It's a role for an elite security operator — someone with the instincts of a seasoned SOC analyst and the technical depth to own the platforms that power detection, response, and protection at enterprise scale. If you find deep satisfaction in mastering a tool, closing a coverage gap, or hunting down a threat that nobody else noticed,

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