Staff Security Engineer

About the role

We're hiring a Staff Security Engineer to join the Product & Engineering Security pillar at Auror. This is an engineer-first role, scoped for someone who lives in the codebase, ships patches, deploys changes, and raises the security bar of the platform from the inside - not from the sidelines. The shape of this role has shifted from where Security engineering at Auror started. The bar for impact has moved. We don't need a security specialist who points at risks and writes recommendations for someone else to take action. We need a Staff-level engineer who picks up the ticket, writes the fix, opens the PR, ships the change, and stays close enough to the platform to know what just happened in production. Threat actors are increasingly AI-capable, our platform is increasingly AI-augmented, and our customers' expectations of how fast we can detect, fix, and prove security have stepped up. The response is engineering muscle - applied to security. At the IC4 (Staff) level, you'll set technical direction for security controls, tooling, and architecture across multiple systems. You'll design security patterns and guardrails that enable safe, repeatable delivery; lead the toughest investigations and architecture reviews; and raise the bar through code, design, and coaching. You'll be a credible engineering voice in cross-functional decisions and a force-multiplier for the engineers around you. Location: Auror's headquarters are in Auckland, and we follow a hybrid way of working. However, we're open to hiring someone remotely for this role, provided they are based in New Zealand. While remote work is supported, we place a high value on spending time together in person. Our remote team members typically travel to Auckland approximately every six weeks to join their team and the wider company for collaboration, planning, and social events.

Responsibilities

• Build Security Tooling and Automation: Write the tools, automation, and detections that scale the security team's impact. Replace manual evidence collection patterns with code. Build the guardrails that make secure defaults the easy path for the engineers around you.

Benefits

Additional Information

About Auror At Auror, we're empowering the retail industry to tackle theft and Organised Retail Crime, a $150 Billion problem globally. It's high volume crime that's increasingly organised in nature and is putting people, retailers, and communities at risk every day. Founded in New Zealand 12 years ago, we're working with some of the best and largest retailers in the world across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Auror is connecting people and intelligence to reduce crime. We're using technology for good. Our mission is clear: reduce violent retail crime by 50% in 5 years. It's an ambitious goal - and one we believe is achievable. In partnership with our leading retail partners, we need people with the passion, determination, and innovation required to overcome one of the world's largest problems. If you're looking to make a difference with and for the people dedicated to stopping crime, for good, then we want you on our team. We're also embracing the potential of AI to supercharge our impact - whether that's enhancing the way we detect trends, support our customers, or improve internal workflows. As a company, we're committed to responsibly incorporating AI into how we work and what we build, and we encourage all Aurors to be curious about how AI can elevate their work, regardless of role or function.

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