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title: 'Senior Security Engineer at Emburse'
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# Senior Security Engineer at Emburse

- **Company:** Emburse
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/emburse/0f5ea09c-d68f-4b9c-8d30-097806bf1522

## Job description

Who We Are:

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing our organization's security posture. You will be responsible for implementing and managing security systems, conducting incident response and analysis, reviewing identity & access management entitlements, and proactively identifying and mitigating potential security threats. This role requires a deep understanding of security technologies, excellent problem-solving skills, and team collaboration.

Essential Functions

- Manage security tools and systems (SIEM, IDS/IPS, endpoint protection, vulnerability management).

- Monitor, analyze, and triage security events, alerts, and logs to identify threats and vulnerabilities.

- Perform incident response activities, including containment, eradication, recovery, and documentation.

- Investigate and analyze security incidents, determine root cause, and recommend remediation.

- Execute incident response playbooks and SOPs.

- Triage and manage bug bounty submissions, code scanning results, and vulnerability findings, ensuring remediation and validation.

- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to embed “shift left” security practices in the software development lifecycle.

- Experience with DevSecOps, DevOps, CICD pipelines, and secure code development.

- Assist with internal and external vulnerability scanning, segmentation testing, and penetration testing programs.

- Create and maintain security metrics and reporting dashboards for leadership visibility.

- Stay current with evolving security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry best practices; recommend enhancements to improve the company’s security posture.

- Administer and monitor Identity & Access Management (IAM) systems, enforcing least privilege, segregation of duties, and periodic access reviews.

- Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and controls for privileged account management to reduce insider and external risk.

## Experience

- Experience in a senior security role with a proven track record of leadership and mentorship.

- Strong knowledge of security principles, technologies, and best practices, including network security, encryption, authentication, access control, and vulnerability management.

- In-depth experience with security tools such as SIEM, IDS, and vulnerability scanners.

- Deep understanding of cloud security concepts and technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.

- Experience with incident response and forensics, including log analysis, malware analysis, and threat hunting.

- In-depth understanding of industry standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to guide others in the analysis of complex security incidents and provide actionable recommendations.

- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills:

- Excellent analytical skills.

- Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.

- Experience working on large cross-functional teams, representing security on initiatives such as change management, identity and access management, policy management, and data retention.

- Strong writing skills and the ability to communicate information about complex issues to stakeholders in a clear and easy to understand way

- Ability to develop creative and adaptive solutions to unique and complex inquiries

- Comfortable with a rapid-pace working environment and meeting deadlines

- Team-focused, positive attitude, and good sense of humor

Education & Certifications:

- Required:  Bachelor’s Degree; Minimum 5+ years of technology project/program management.

Why Emburse?

Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.

- A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize their finance operations.
- A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real- world challenges.
- A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports your success.
- A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making for businesses everywhere.

Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

## About Emburse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emburse provides an AI-powered, end-to-end travel and expense management platform that simplifies spending, compliance, and financial workflows for organizations of all sizes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Chrome River Technologies in 2019; backed by K1 Investment Management and Y Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on primary sources; the company was formed through the acquisition and consolidation of multiple expense management platforms (including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia, and Tallie)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Software Development / Fintech – Travel and Expense Management
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Global enterprises, mid-sized businesses, SMBs, public sector agencies, and nonprofits
- **Mission**: "To deliver the greatest business value for our customers and make the lives of professionals easier through innovative expense management, business travel, accounts payable, and payment solutions." [emburse.com](https://www.emburse.com/company/about-emburse)

## Products & Services
- **Emburse Travel**: Mobile-first travel booking and management tool that integrates with expense tracking for real-time visibility and compliance.
- **Emburse Expense**: AI-driven expense management that automatically captures, categorizes, and validates spend in real time before reports are submitted.
- **Emburse AP Automation**: Accounts payable automation for invoicing and payments, reducing manual data entry and processing time.
- **Emburse Payments**: Streamlined payment solutions integrated with the expense and AP workflow.
- **Emburse AI**: Purpose-built AI layer that provides real-time visibility and control, enforces policy pre-submission, and adapts to global tax and currency rules.
- **Emburse Integrations**: Connects with hundreds of third-party technology solutions (ERP, CRM, HRIS) and travel providers. [emburse.com](https://www.emburse.com/company/about-emburse)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$166.1 million** (latest estimate). Total Funding of **$4.4 million** (seed and private equity). [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/emburse)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: K1 Investment Management (lead private equity investor, 2019), Y Combinator (seed stage). Key partners include hundreds of travel and technology providers.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 611 employees (+7.1% YoY). Over **12 million professionals** in **200 countries** use the platform. Serves **over 15,000 organizations**. Acquired multiple companies to build its suite: Certify, Nexonia, Captio, TripBAM, Roadmap, and Data Visualization Intelligence. [emburse.com](https://www.emburse.com/company/about-emburse) [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/emburse)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Platform**: Combines travel, expense, AP, and payments on a single AI-powered platform, creating a comprehensive spend management solution.
- **Global Scale**: Available in 180 currencies and used across 200 countries, with deep compliance for international tax and currency rules.
- **Acquisition Strategy**: Built a best-in-class suite by acquiring and integrating multiple market-leading expense management tools (Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia, Tallie, Abacus), creating a broad customer base and deep feature set.
- **AI-First Approach**: Purpose-built AI enforces policy, automates categorization, and provides real-time insights, reducing manual work for finance teams.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Automation**: Deepening AI capabilities to drive further automation and intelligence across the entire spend lifecycle.
- **Platform Consolidation**: Continuing to unify the acquired product portfolio into a single seamless experience.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in EMEA, APAC, and other international markets (with offices in Spain, UK, Australia, Canada, India).
- **Enterprise & Mid-Market Penetration**: Targeting CFOs, travel managers, and finance teams at larger organizations seeking strategic spend control.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes "smart and caring people" and building a strong community with quarterly outings and office social events. The company's values are focused on impact and innovation.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid approach with offices in Dallas, Burlington (MA), and other global hubs. Many roles are remote-friendly, but specific policy varies by location and role.
- **Perks**: Generous 401(k) matching, financial planning services (including legal planning for trusts/wills), and a partnership with eCornell for employee learning and development. Full benefits include retirement planning and professional development budgets for conferences and courses. [emburse.com](https://www.emburse.com/company/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong engineering presence (19% of workforce in technical roles). Actively hiring for Software Engineer III, Sr Software Engineer, and SDET roles, suggesting a focus on building and scaling the platform.
- **Considerations**: Employee reviews (2.9/5.0 on LinkedIn) indicate mixed sentiment, with lower scores for culture (2.7) and career growth (2.9), but higher for work-life balance (3.5) and compensation (3.1). This may reflect challenges common in post-acquisition integration phases. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/emburse)

## Sources
1. [Emburse About Page](https://www.emburse.com/company/about-emburse)
2. [Emburse Careers Page](https://www.emburse.com/company/careers)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/emburse)
4. [Emburse Lever Careers](https://jobs.lever.co/emburse)
5. [Indeed Company Page](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Emburse)

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