Staff Security Engineer — Enterprise Security Architect

Aurora; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join Enterprise Security Engineering in a hybrid, multi-location setup including Pittsburgh. You will architect and build security controls, telemetry pipelines, and automation that scale with Aurora’s growing autonomous mobility platform.

This role emphasizes deep technical execution and collaboration with IT and engineering teams to embed security from the start.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on enterprise security engineering experience.
• Proficiency in programming language used for security automation (Go, Python).
• Experience architecting enterprise security platforms and integrations.
• Experience designing telemetry pipelines, log ingestion, SIEM integration, alerting.
• Experience leading cross-functional security engineering projects.
• Track record in security architecture reviews and risk remediation.
• Bias toward durable, scalable security solutions over quick fixes.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and implementation of enterprise security controls and integrations.
• Design and build security telemetry and detection infrastructure with log pipelines and SIEM.
• Define and enforce security standards and conduct architecture reviews.
• Collaborate with IT, Infra, and Engineering to embed security early in projects.
• Build automation and tooling to extend security platforms and reduce manual toil.
• Serve as escalation point for enterprise security incidents requiring engineering input.
• Translate security strategy into concrete engineering milestones and outcomes.

Skills

Security engineering

Programming in Go

Python scripting

Security architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Incident response

Tools

EDR/XDR

SIEM

IAM/IGA

PKI

Cloud security

MDM

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join Enterprise Security Engineering in a hybrid, multi-location setup including Pittsburgh. You will architect and build security controls, telemetry pipelines, and automation that scale with Aurora’s growing autonomous mobility platform.

This role emphasizes deep technical execution and collaboration with IT and engineering teams to embed security from the start.