Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Mountain View, United States - Aurora Innovation

Description

Aurora Overview

Bringing self-driving vehicles to our roads is the most transformative opportunity of our generation. Aurora is taking a fresh start with the development of self-driving technology, combining excellence in AI, rigorous engineering, and a team with decades of experience building robots that work.

Led by a team of seasoned experts, our mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We are designing the software and hardware to power the transportation of our future that will make our roads safer, give more people access to mobility, and reduce congestion and pollution in cities - improving the quality of life for all. The challenge in what we are endeavoring to achieve is transcendent; we are developing perhaps the world's most complex computing system and asking it to perform the task of transporting and keeping safe our most precious asset: human life.

Aurora hires people who are excited to build the future of transportation.

Role

Aurora's Cloud Security team's mission is to design and build security capabilities for Aurora Services. Aurora makes extensive use of public cloud infrastructure (AWS), Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code technologies. This role is focused on designing and implementing security infrastructure and controls into AWS to create a mature cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will partner with our Infrastructure team, and in some cases with development teams that own individual services. Your focus will be security, but you will need to understand the above areas well to be effective in the role.

In this role, you will

• Design and build security infrastructure and controls on AWS
• Secure AWS cloud environment in the areas of but not limited to:
• Create automation to solve security problems at the root

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in working in security and public cloud infrastructure
• 1+ years experience in one or more domains in security:
• Identity & Access Management
• Detection & Response
• Vulnerability Management
• Experience with AWS security controls or equivalent cloud security experience
• Fundamental understanding of threat modeling, network security, OS security, AWS security best practices
• Some familiarity with at least 1 scripting / programming language

Desirable

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and writing and reviewing Terraform
• Experience with microservices and containerization
• Experience with Kubernetes and related eco-system
• Understanding of Devops/Devsecops concepts and CI/CD tooling/pipelines

The base salary range for this position is $196k-$294k per year. Aurora's pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

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