Database Engineer (Search Platform)

Do work that matters.  

At AlertMedia, everything we do supports our mission: To save lives and minimize loss by identifying active threats globally and facilitating timely communications when an emergency threatens personal safety and business continuity.    

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. 

AlertMedia is looking for an experienced Database Engineer (Search Platform) with deep expertise in Elasticsearch at scale, relational databases (Postgres/MySQL), and modern search architectures including vector search, semantic search, hybrid search, and ranking strategies such as Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).

This is a hands-on role focused on designing, operating, and evolving the data stores and search infrastructure that power AlertMedia’s real-time risk intelligence platform. You will play a critical role in how we index, query, rank, and retrieve signals across large-scale structured and unstructured datasets. We’re looking for someone who has built and operated production-grade search and database systems, understands distributed systems tradeoffs, and is comfortable owning complex data infrastructure end to end. We want you to shine by showing us real systems you’ve designed, clusters you’ve scaled, search architectures you’ve improved, and performance problems you’ve solved. We don’t do trick questions or whiteboard exercises.

Who you are:    

You are a pragmatic database engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys wo