Who We Are
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering 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 is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles. It underpins Aurora’s driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Continental, FedEx, Hirschbach, PACCAR, Ryder, Schneider, Toyota, Uber, Uber Freight, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and Werner. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.
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. We’re searching for a Senior InfoSec Site Reliability Engineer focusing on Identity and Access Management to help ensure the integrity and availability of our InfoSec and Enterprise infrastructure services.
In this role, you will
- Manage and evolve our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (Hashicorp Vault and internally developed systems).
- Design and support a variety of infrastructure solutions with the engineering and security teams.
- Manage and evolve our Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform (a hybrid of SaaS and internally developed systems).
- Develop and utilize tooling and processes to support and scale the adoption of our IAM platform with teams across Aurora.
- Create and implement observability, metrics, alerting, and runbooks.
- Participate in the InfoSec SRE on-call rotation supporting InfoSec services.
Required Qualifications
- Must have a solid background in Public Key Infrastructure, including experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale PKI solutions (Active Directory Certificate Services, Hashicorp Vault, AWS Private CA, and Common Digital Certificate standards such as X.509 and PKCS).
- Experience with industry-standard Hardware Security Module (HSM) solutions (CloudHSM, YubiHSM, Thales, SafeNet, Gemalto).
- 7+ years in cloud, infrastructure, information security, or SRE roles with a relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience with automation and tool development, preferably using Go or Python.
- Experience with DevOps (CI/CD) concepts and tooling in the cloud with expertise in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Strong change management skills including rollout planning, communication, and collaborating with stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, negotiation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills.
Desirable Qualifications
- A solid background in Cloud IAM concepts (AWS, GCP, or Google Workspace).
- Experience deploying client certificates and implementing mutual TLS (mTLS).
- Experience with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) implementations.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale.
- Expertise in architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems.
- An understanding of network security, cloud security concepts, and industry best practices across many security fields.
The base salary range for this position is $119-$179k 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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Working at Aurora
At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.
We have offices in several locations across the United States, where we encourage team and cross-functional collaboration. Aurora offers competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and additional healthcare support including medical transportation reimbursement, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. We empower our employees and their families with options to further their unique physical, mental, and financial well-being.
Our Learning and Development offerings include Aurora Academy, where our people learn, develop, and practice the essential skills that drive Aurora’s mission, continually up-leveling our team along the way. Our Careers page provides insight into career opportunities at Aurora, and you can find all the latest news on our Blog.
Safety is central to everything we do. Every employee at Aurora has a role in contributing to safety, every step of the way. We seek candidates who take active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization's long-term success by working safely — no matter what.
We believe that self-driving technology has broad benefits – including increased access to transportation. To realize those benefits, we need a workforce with diverse experiences, insights, and perspectives — a workforce that reflects the communities our technology will serve.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Aurora, every employee is empowered to take an active role in building an inclusive, collaborative, and unified culture that leverages our diverse strengths, perspectives, and backgrounds.
Transforming how the world moves people and goods involves seeking to understand backgrounds, insights, and lived experiences that differ from our own. One way we accomplish that is with our 15 employee-led Aurora Unified Groups, which support diverse voices and drive inclusive collaboration. We believe that teamwork, belonging, and trust motivate and support our employees to do their best work. As our team grows, we strive to attract and retain exceptional talent that adds new perspectives and experiences and continues to drive innovation. Learn more on our Culture Page.
We are committed to helping qualified military community members leverage their talents in service of our mission. To understand how your military experience aligns with career opportunities at Aurora, review your military job classification at MyNextMove.org and consider applying for open positions corresponding to your identified skills and experiences!
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What We Do
Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. To move both people and goods, the company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, among others, and is partnered with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit aurora.tech.
Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and has partnerships with leading transportation companies including PACCAR, Uber, FCA, and Hyundai Group. It tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas and has offices in those cities as well as in Bozeman, Seattle, Denver, and Detroit.
Aurora hires people who want to build the future of transportation.
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