Staff Security Engineer - Enterprise Security Platforms

Aurora; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora in Seattle is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the Enterprise Security Engineering team. You will design and build the security foundations for our end-to-end security posture, integrating endpoints, identities, and infrastructure, and you will write production‑ready automation.

This is a deeply technical role that pairs coding with architecture, requiring collaboration with IT and Engineering to embed security from the start, not as an afterthought, and to scale Aurora's

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands‑on enterprise security engineering experience.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for automation (Go preferred).
• Experience architecting and integrating enterprise security platforms.
• Experience designing and building security telemetry pipelines and detection infrastructure.
• Experience leading cross‑functional security engineering projects.
• Track record of security architecture reviews and remediation planning.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and implementation of enterprise security controls.
• Design and build telemetry, log pipelines, SIEM integrations, and alerting.
• Define and enforce security standards with risk‑based reviews.
• Embed security requirements early with IT and Engineering teams.
• Build automation to extend security platforms and reduce manual work.
• Serve as escalation point for security incidents requiring engineering.
• Translate security strategy into executable projects with milestones.

Skills

Programming in Go/Python

Enterprise security engineering

Security architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Security automation

Incident escalation

Tools

Go

Python

SIEM

EDR/XDR

IAM/IGA

PKI

Job description

Aurora in Seattle is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the Enterprise Security Engineering team. You will design and build the security foundations for our end-to-end security posture, integrating endpoints, identities, and infrastructure, and you will write production‑ready automation.

This is a deeply technical role that pairs coding with architecture, requiring collaboration with IT and Engineering to embed security from the start, not as an afterthought, and to scale Aurora's