What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Staff Application Security Engineer position at Aurora?
Who We Are
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. 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. Aurora’s Product Security team’s mission is to discover, mitigate, and prevent security risks in the software, hardware, and services developed by Aurora. Our team is responsible for ensuring the secure design and implementation of the technology built for the Aurora Driver as well as continually improving the assurance levels of security across all of Aurora’s Products. We are searching for an experienced Security Engineer with strong application security experience that is excited to lead and improve the overall application security posture for the autonomous vehicle platform to join us on this mission.
In this role, you will
- Perform secure design reviews and threat modeling. Identify and prioritize risks, attack surfaces, and vulnerabilities.
- Perform security code reviews of source code changes and advise developers on remediating vulnerabilities and following secure coding practices.
- Perform technical security assessments and reviews, research, uncover, and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers to drive architecture changes.
- Manage the vulnerability management process and program through triage, prioritization, tracking, remediation, and validation of vulnerabilities from audits, scans and external reports.
- Employ techniques including reverse engineering, fuzzing, and static and / or dynamic analysis.
- Conduct research to identify new and novel attack vectors against Aurora’s products and services.
- Review, develop and document secure operational best practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and various internal and external partners.
- Develop and manage a secure software development lifecycle.
- Develop and manage a bug bounty program.
- Research, recommend, and develop security tools and technologies to strengthen defenses against emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
- Work with Engineering teams and OEMs to ensure successful security assurance of the Aurora Driver platform and services.
- Advocate, guide and mentor both security and non-security engineers to instill security best practices through secure architecture, design, and development.
Required Qualifications
Desirable Qualifications
The base salary range for this position is $254k-$407K 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.
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and / or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
To learn more about life at Aurora please visit our company culture page.
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Salary : $254,000 - $407,000
