Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Architecture

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br><a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://aurora.tech/aurora-driver" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://aurora.tech/aurora-driver" data-sk="tooltip_parent">The Aurora Driver</a> will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit <a href="https://aurora.tech/" target="_blank">aurora.tech</a> or follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/auroradriver" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><p>Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. <span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re searching for a <strong>Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise Security Architecture.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>This position is open to the following office locations: </strong>Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Detroit, and Phoenix.</span></p> <p><strong>In this role, you will</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and champion Aurora’s enterprise security architecture strategy, roadmap, and target-state operating model across enterprise and backend operational security domains.</li> <li>Develop enterprise security reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for endpoint security, network security, infrastructure security, enterprise vulnerability management, data protection, resilience, enterprise platforms, and security tooling.</li> <li>Translate security strategy, governance requirements, and business priorities into scalable technical architecture and implementation guidance.</li> <li>Partner with GRC to operationalize security policies, standards, and control objectives into practical enterprise security architectures.</li> <li>Support and influence Aurora’s broader Enterprise Architecture Committee by representing enterprise security priorities, technical standards, and strategic design principles.</li> <li>Participate in architecture review boards, design committees, and strategic planning forums to ensure enterprise security alignment across major initiatives.</li> <li>Architect secure solutions for workforce platforms, enterprise systems, internal infrastructure, and backend operational ecosystems using Zero Trust principles and modern security frameworks.</li> <li>Guide enterprise security design for endpoint security, network security, PKI, enterprise vulnerability management, BCP/DR, data security, enterprise infrastructure, and security tooling modernization.</li> <li>Provide architectural oversight for major enterprise security initiatives, ensuring scalability, interoperability, governance alignment, and reduced fragmentation.</li> <li>Partner with Security Engineering, GRC, Cloud Security, IT, Product Security, and IAM teams to align technical security capabilities while maintaining clear domain boundaries.</li> <li>Identify architectural gaps, capability overlaps, and opportunities to streamline enterprise security investments.</li> <li>Help shape long-term strategy for enterprise security capabilities, including emerging needs related to AI security, automation, infrastructure modernization, and operational resilience.</li> <li>Support security tooling strategy by evaluating architectural fit, integration models, and long-term scalability of enterprise security platforms.</li> <li>Establish and maintain enterprise security design documentation, architecture diagrams, reference standards, and technical governance artifacts.</li> <li>Guide enterprise security maturity by aligning architecture to frameworks such as Zero Trust, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOX, SOC 2, and broader operational resilience objectives.</li> <li>Serve as a strategic advisor to Enterprise Security leadership on architecture, maturity, organizational scaling, and strategic technical investments.</li> <li>Support Enterprise Security leadership with strategic technical narratives that improve executive and business understanding of enterprise security investments.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of professional experience in Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Security Engineering, or related technical leadership capacities.</li> <li>5+ years specifically focused on designing enterprise-scale security architectures across diverse domains, including endpoint, network, infrastructure, vulnerability management, resilience, and enterprise platforms.</li> <li>Demonstrated success in developing enterprise security…