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 working on systems that operate at scale in the real world.

You have significant experience designing, tuning, and operating Elasticsearch clusters in production, including large datasets, high ingest rates, and low-latency search requirements. You understand shard allocation, index lifecycle management, query optimization, cluster scaling, replication, and performance tuning.

You also have strong experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, including schema design, indexing strategies, query planning, and operational best practices.

You care deeply about: Building resilient, observable, and scalable data infrastructure Search relevance, performance, and correctness Data modeling and storage design Operational excellence and production reliability Clean, maintainable infrastructure and automation You are comfortable working in Python and SQL, have experience with AWS infrastructure, and enjoy improving systems continuously.

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About AlertMedia: AlertMedia helps organizations protect their people and businesses through all phases of an emergency. Our award-winning threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions help companies of all sizes identify, respond to, and recover from critical events faster and more confidently.

AlertMedia supports essential communication for thousands of leading businesses—including JetBlue, Coca-Cola Bottling, and Walmart—in more than 150 countries. 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. com . Come join us in our mission to save lives and minimize loss through effective communication.