Very Good Security
Payment Processing & Gateways
Truth index A
18Open roles5 posted in 30 days
$220kMedian advertised pay$160k – $230k+7% vs market
66 daysTime to fillmedian of 9 closed rolesmarket: 38 days
A 89/100Truth index
Facts
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It is hiring: 18 open roles, 5 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 201-500estimated range
- Open roles
- 18Alion job postings
- Website
- verygoodsecurity.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 18 open roles at Very Good Security. Very Good Security is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2015. It has raised $103.5M in 3 funding rounds. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $60M, announced in 2020. The median pay stated in its open roles is $220k, across 18 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
89/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Backend is the largest family, 22 of open roles.
5Posted in 30 days28% of open roles are fresh
100%Remote roles18 of 18
8Roles in AI44% of open roles
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
2 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 21.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand80
Pay34
Your chance64
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+29%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 14 then, 18 now
Are the postings real?
A
89 / 100Very Good Security scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 25% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 66 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale25%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 100%
Experience asked: 6.6 years on average, in 17 postings. 1 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Full-Time 18
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$220kMedianmarket estimate $205k
$160k – $230kTypical rangeUSD a year
$280kHighest paying roleSr. Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $205k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.
1Cities
1Countries
San FranciscoBusiest site
| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco United States | Headquarters | 5 | Backend, HR, Management | 40% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Financials
Funding rounds, investors and revenue on record.
$103.5MTotal raised
Venture - Series UnknownLatest round
3Rounds and grants
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
Largest rounds and grants
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Very Good Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
43Technologies in use
25Postings analysed
75/100Stack modernityAI adopter
Frameworks & librariesOpenTelemetry 32%Spring Framework 16%FastAPI 8%Spring Boot 4%
Cloud & platformsAWS 64%Kubernetes 44%Amazon EKS 40%Grafana 40%
AI & MLLLM 12%
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Full Very Good Security tech stack43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Oct 27
First role in United Kingdom Solutions Architect
Jan 14, 2021
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Control – Accelerate and automate security and SOC2 compliance for free
Dec 21, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $60M · Fortune
Oct 24, 2019
Raised a round Series B $35M · led by Goldman Capital · TechCrunch
2015
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
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Dec 21, 20202020
News · Fortune
Data security startup raises a new round of venture capital funding.
Oct 24, 20192019
News · TechCrunch
Data security startup Very Good Security has raised $35 million in its latest round of funding. Its Series B, announced Thursday, was led by Goldman
Aug 28, 20182018
News · PYMNTS.com
Very Good Security, the startup that locks companies' data in a secure vault, raised $8.5 million in a round of venture funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once