Director of Security Operations & Detection Engineering

Aurora; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 247,000 - 358,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Director of Security Operations & Detection Engineering to lead Aurora's Detection & Response and SOC functions within the Technical Assurance division. You will own strategy, roadmap, and operating rigor for detection, triage, investigation, and response across Onboard, Cloud, and Enterprise environments, unifying engineering and 24x7 operations.

You will shape multi-year strategy, manage a multi-team organization, and report KPIs to executives, including overseeing

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including 6+ years leading, managing, and scaling detection engineering and security operations teams.
• Hands-on experience with detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response to guide technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end leadership of the D&R and SOC teams, including engineers and analysts across detection engineering, incident response, and 24x7 monitoring/triage.
• Own 24x7 staffing model, on-call rotations, and resource allocation across time zones to ensure continuous coverage; participate in leadership escalation on-call as needed.
• Define and drive the multi-year strategy and roadmap for detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, and security operations.
• Stay close enough to the technology (SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, cloud-native and vehicle/embedded environments) to make architecture and prioritization calls, review technical strategy with your leads, and step in on the highest-stakes technical problems or incidents.
• Own end-to-end incident response posture - from detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews. Serve as the executive point of contact for cybersecurity incidents and audits.
• Oversee cloud vulnerability management: ensure findings are triaged by severity/exploitability, owners are assigned, and remediation or compensating controls are tracked to closure against SLAs.
• Oversee design, development, and implementation of detections, tooling and Cross Functional projects that touch Cloud, Enterprise, and On-Vehicle D&R/SOC.
• Own and report on KPIs, telemetry coverage, alert fidelity, and SOC efficiency and maturity to executive leadership.

Tools

Snowflake

AWS Athena

SQL

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Director of Security Operations & Detection Engineering to lead Aurora's Detection & Response and SOC functions within the Technical Assurance division. You will own strategy, roadmap, and operating rigor for detection, triage, investigation, and response across Onboard, Cloud, and Enterprise environments, unifying engineering and 24x7 operations.

You will shape multi-year strategy, manage a multi-team organization, and report KPIs to executives, including overseeing