Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the Attentive Team
Have you ever received text message marketing from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that effective text message marketing is by far the highest ROI marketing channel? And did you know that customers are increasingly preferring to interact with brands through text? That is what we do at Attentive. We help the world’s largest brands interact with their clients at the right time and with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages per day, approaching 100 billion per year.
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About the Role
Our Security team safeguards Attentive’s platform and customer data, enabling swift and secure operations. We tackle complex security challenges to ensure trust and integrity across our services. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to work with some of the world’s most talented security professionals in a high-performance and high-impact culture.
We are seeking an experienced and adaptable security engineer with strong technical skills and a developer mindset. The ideal candidate is motivated to reduce risk while enabling the business to operate swiftly and safely. As a key member of the Security Engineering team, you will be responsible for securing Attentive’s platform (operating in AWS) and customer-facing products (primarily built with Java microservices). Your role will encompass building and operating tools to secure our code, detect abnormal behaviors, and provide security testing and guidance for new systems and features.
You will lead our product and application security program, serving as a central resource for enhancing product security for our clients. Collaborating with a talented team of security professionals, you will help shape the future of Attentive’s security program and create a positive impact for the company and its customers.
At Attentive, we strive to make interactions with our security team seamless and enjoyable. Therefore, the ideal candidate should possess:
• A creative and solution-oriented mindset to develop effective solutions for all stakeholders
• Patience to understand developer teams’ processes and goals for implementing thoughtful security
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• The ability to automate security processes to minimize the security burden on partner teams and support rapid company growth
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What You’ll Accomplish
- Architecture Design & Code Reviews: Conduct secure design and code reviews for new systems and features, identifying common vulnerabilities such as injection attacks and cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Automation & Tooling: Develop and implement security tools for code scanning, dependency management, and CI/CD pipeline integration to protect systems throughout the development lifecycle
- Engineering Support: Provide hands-on support to engineers in deploying security solutions, hardening services, and remediating vulnerabilities, including encryption and input validation
- Threat Modeling: Lead the creation of comprehensive threat models for products and infrastructure to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks
- Vulnerability Management: Establish and oversee a vulnerability management lifecycle, ensuring timely detection, reporting, and remediation of security vulnerabilities
- Security Guidance & Documentation: Promote secure coding practices and maintain security documentation, including reports from penetration testing and product security tools
