Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Operations

In this role you will Own the operational health, configuration, and continuous improvement of Aurora's enterprise security platform stack — including EDR/XDR, MDM, SIEM, DLP, IAM/IGA, DNS security, Email security, and PKI — ensuring each tool is tuned, policy‑complete, and delivering reliable signal. Develop and refine detection rules, correlation logic, and alert policies, reducing noise while ensuring Aurora maintains high‑fidelity coverage against real threats. Conduct proactive threat hunting across Aurora's security telemetry — forming hypotheses, querying logs, and investigating anomalies before they surface as incidents. Serve as the deepest internal expert on Aurora's enterprise security tooling, acting as the escalation point for complex platform issues, misconfigurations, and detection failures. Participate in the team's on‑call rotation, leading deep‑dive investigations into security alerts and incidents and driving triage, containment, and root‑cause analysis. Continuously audit and validate that existing security controls are configured to actually do what they're supposed to do — not just deployed and forgotten. Maintain operational runbooks, detection documentation, and platform configuration records, ensuring the team can operate consistently and scale institutional knowledge. Required qualifications 12+ years of hands‑on experience in enterprise security operations, security platform administration, or a senior SOC engineering role — with a career built on deep operational ownership of security tooling rather than software development. Expert‑level proficiency administering and operating at least two enterprise security platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, Panther, Sentinel, Jamf, Kandji/Iru, Puppet, WorkspaceONE, Intune, Zscaler, Okta, Proofpoint, Wiz, osquery), with strong working knowledge across several others. Demonstrated ability to tune and optimize security platforms beyond out‑of‑the‑box configurations — writing custom detection logic, adjusting policy sets, and validating control effectiveness. Strong log analysis and threat‑hunting skills: you know how to build a hypothesis, write the query, follow the thread, and know when to escape. Experience conducting thorough incident investigations — triage, containment, root‑cause analysis, and post‑incident review — and communicating findings clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Ability to assess security control effectiveness: not just “is this tool deployed” but “is it configured correctly, covering the right scope, and generating actionable signal.” Comfort working under pressure in ambiguous, fast‑moving situations with competing priorities. Desirable qualifications Scripting ability for automation, log parsing, or workflow improvement (Python, Bash, or similar) — you don’t need to be a software engineer, but you can write a script when it saves you an hour. Deep familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK as an operational tool for detection gap analysis and threat‑hunting hypothesis development. Experience with AWS security telemetry (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub) and integrating cloud signals into a corporate SIEM. Familiarity with Zero Trust and identity‑centric security models as they apply to policy enforcement in IAM and endpoint platforms. Platform‑specific certifications such as CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator, Splunk Core Certified Power User, or equivalent — or practitioner certifications like GCIH, GCIA, GCFE, or GCFA. Compensation and benefits The base salary range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000 per year. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits. Location This position is open to the following office locations: Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Detroit, and Phoenix. Commitment to inclusion Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. 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