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# Security Engineer at AlertMedia

- **Company:** AlertMedia
- **Location:** United States / Austin, TX
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alertmedia/jobs/8757571002

## Job description

Do work that matters.

At AlertMedia, we help organizations protect their people, operations, and brand. Our modern Risk Intelligence and Response platform empowers teams to detect emerging threats, assess impact, and respond with confidence. We believe building resilience should be simpler—and it starts with bringing critical information and workflows together in one unified platform.

Our core values drive us in our important mission of keeping people safe & informed:

- We’re humans not robots
- Customers always come first
- We work better together
- Simplicity is our strength
- Our reputation is priceless
- Hard work pays off

As one of the fastest growing software companies in the nation, we’re focused on finding the best talent and building the best team to continue accelerating our rapid growth to keep up with our demand. We’re also an AI-forward company, and we expect everyone on our team to use modern AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and others, to work smarter, move faster, and optimize processes.

Who you are:

You are a hands-on Security Engineer who can translate security and compliance requirements into practical technical solutions. You communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical audiences and enjoy working across teams. You are comfortable balancing cloud security, application security, compliance, and customer-facing responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.

What you get to do every day:

- Partner with Engineering to design, implement, and improve security controls across AlertMedia’s software, application architecture, and AWS infrastructure.
- Strengthen security monitoring, detection, and incident response capabilities.
- Integrate security controls into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and software development workflows.
- Support compliance efforts, including SOC 2 and ISO audits.
- Lead the technical portions of enterprise customer security reviews and architecture discussions.
- Develop deep knowledge of AlertMedia’s software and advise Sales and Legal on customer security questions.
- Clearly communicate security risks, requirements, and recommendations to technical teams, business partners, and customers.
- Identify opportunities to improve security and compliance controls across the product and infrastructure.

What you bring to the role:

- Three or more years of experience in security engineering, information security, compliance, or a related role.
- Must have hands-on experience securing AWS environments.
- Experience with AWS security services such as: Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Cloud, Key Management Service, Web Application Firewall, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Macie.
- Knowledge of identity and access management, encryption standards, cloud infrastructure, and security tooling.
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows.
- Experience supporting SOC 2 and/or ISO audits.
- Experience supporting application security, cloud security, or incident response programs.
- Experience participating in customer security reviews and explaining technical concepts to different audiences.
- Experience leading technical security or architecture discussions with enterprise customers.
- Strong analytical, project management, organization, and prioritization skills.
- A collaborative and adaptable approach, with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.

Location: This is a remote, U.S.-based position. Please note that we currently do not hire candidates residing in the following states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming

Sponsorship: AlertMedia does not sponsor employment visas. Candidates must have existing authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

Why you’ll love working at AlertMedia:

At AlertMedia, you won’t just build your career — you’ll be part of something meaningful, surrounded by people who genuinely care about the work and each other.

- Competitive base salary + Company-wide bonus program
- Generous and flexible time off and parental leave policies
- Health benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance are 100% paid for employees!
- 401K with generous company match
- Amazing rewards and incentives – we love celebrating each other!
- Commitment to community service with opportunities to give back
- A Best Places to Work company 10 years in a row and numerous other awards
- Access to new downtown office with 360 views of Austin, high-tech building gym and nearby running trails
- Ongoing career development opportunities through our Learning & Development team
- You'll do meaningful work—while growing your career in a fast-moving, global company with an award-winning culture

About AlertMedia:

We are the leading risk intelligence and response platform — trusted by the largest companies in the world to protect their people and assets when it matters most.  We are a high-growth, PE-backed SaaS company with more than 4,000 clients scaling rapidly across the globe.  Our technology is unmatched with a unified platform, a 7+year history of AI innovation, a customer NPS of 70+, and a culture that sets us even further apart from our competition.

We are an equal opportunity employer focused on creating a collaborative and exciting place for all to work. Ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace for all people is key to our success and core to our values.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

This is an amazing opportunity to be part of our wave of momentum and take our company, and your career, to the next growth stage. We'd love to get to know you better and share how we serve our amazing customers. For more information, please visit [www.alertmedia.com](http://www.alertmedia.com/).

Come join us in our mission to save lives and minimize loss through effective communication.

By applying for the role, you agree that Alert Media will use your Personal Information in connection with the recruitment process and in accordance with our Privacy Policy – https://www.alertmedia.com/legal/privacy-policy/

## About AlertMedia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AlertMedia provides a unified risk intelligence and response platform that helps organizations protect their people and operations by streamlining threat detection, mass communication, and incident management.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Founders**: Not publicly available from provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Risk intelligence, emergency communication, security operations, travel risk management
- **Target customers**: B2B – organizations of every size, industry, and risk environment (SMB to enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Helping organizations protect what matters most” – enabling companies to keep their people safe, informed, and connected during critical events.

## Products & Services
- **Unified Risk Intelligence & Response Platform (SaaS)**: A single platform that combines global threat monitoring (45+ social and dark web sources), AI-driven risk analysis, mass notification (send alerts in seconds from any device), incident management workflows, travel risk visibility, and a common operating picture for employees and assets.
- **24/7 Expert Monitoring Team**: Live analyst support for threat verification and response coordination, with an average response time of less than 10 minutes.
- **Dedicated Customer Success & Onboarding**: Every customer gets a dedicated success manager, consultative onboarding, and ongoing support to ensure rapid deployment and high adoption.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Protects over $4 trillion in customer revenue and 8 million employees across 150+ countries; serves 3,500+ customers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Appointed first President and Chief AI Officer (Alex Vaccaro) in May 2026 to accelerate AI momentum and customer growth
  - Launched next-generation AI-powered analytics (AlertMedia Analytics) in May 2026 for real-time security operations insights
  - Named a Best Place to Work by Austin Business Journal for seven consecutive years
  - Named #6 Best Place to Work in Austin and #35 Best Place to Work in the U.S. by Built In
  - Recognized as one of Forbes’ top 500 startup employers
  - 98% employee recommendation rate, NPS score of +87

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Combines risk intelligence, threat monitoring, mass notification, incident management, and travel risk into one solution, reducing complexity and total cost of ownership (67% lower TCO reported by customers).
- **Speed and simplicity**: Threat identification to notification in just 3 clicks; average improvement in response time of 25 minutes.
- **High customer satisfaction**: 98% customer satisfaction rate, dedicated success managers, and 24/7 support create strong retention and advocacy.
- **Global reach**: Serves 150+ countries with local threat intelligence and multi-language capabilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first innovation**: Deepening AI capabilities across risk detection, analytics, and automation (Chief AI Officer role signals commitment).
- **Global expansion**: Continued growth in international markets and scaling the customer base across industries.
- **Operational resilience**: Helping organizations move from reactive crisis response to proactive, data-driven risk management.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of “fun-loving, creative” people who are serious about the mission. Named a top workplace locally and nationally for seven+ years.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Mix of in-office (Austin HQ), remote within the US, and an office in Mexico City. Many roles offer remote flexibility.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% paid medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees (subsidized for dependents)
  - Flexible PTO (unlimited, no counting days)
  - 16 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
  - 6-week paid sabbatical after 6 years of service
  - Company-wide annual bonus based on collective success
  - Tuesday lunches with company updates from leadership
  - Quarterly volunteer opportunities and team celebrations
- **Engineering & Growth**: Opportunities in Elixir, AI development, security engineering, and test automation. Career development supported through a learning culture and cross-functional exposure.

## Sources
1. [alertmedia.com - About Us](https://www.alertmedia.com/about/)
2. [alertmedia.com - Careers](https://www.alertmedia.com/careers/)
3. [alertmedia.com - Homepage](https://www.alertmedia.com/)
4. [greenhouse.io - Jobs at AlertMedia](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alertmedia/jobs/8400142002)

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