Bumble Inc.
Senior Security Software Engineer
US TX Austin · Senior
No sponsorship$190k-$215kDetected 27 days ago
Distributed SystemsData EngineeringCybersecurityDetection EngineeringRecruitingCollaboration
About the role
- The Security Engineering team plays a critical role in protecting our members, products, platforms, and business while enabling innovation at scale.
- This is a highly collaborative role for an experienced engineer who is passionate about solving complex technical challenges, creating scalable security solutions, and driving engineering excellence.
- We're excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable software systems that strengthen security capabilities across Bumble's products, platforms, and enterprise environments.
- Develop high-quality services, APIs, automation, and security tooling that enable Product Security, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense teams to operate effectively at scale.
- Build and optimize security data pipelines that collect, enrich, process, and surface actionable security telemetry from a variety of sources.
- Partner closely with software engineering, infrastructure, platform, Trust & Safety, and security teams to embed secure-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Drive engineering excellence through thoughtful architecture, code quality, testing, automation, reliability, and operational best practices.
- Develop scalable solutions that reduce manual effort, improve detection and response capabilities, and enable security teams to make faster, more informed decisions.
- Collaborate with purpose, take ownership of outcomes, and demonstrate an agile mindset while role modelling Bumble values of Curiosity, Excellence, and Respect.
- Strong software engineering experience building distributed systems, services, APIs, platforms, or backend applications in production environments.
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions using modern engineering practices.
- Experience building and operating data pipelines, telemetry platforms, event-driven systems, or large-scale data processing solutions.
Nice to have
- Strong understanding of observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, diagnostics, and operational visibility.
- Experience working with cloud-native architectures, platform services, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices.
- Knowledge of application security, platform security, security monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management, or security engineering practices.
- Ability to independently solve complex technical challenges, evaluate trade-offs, and influence technical direction across teams and domains.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency while applying sound human judgment to outputs.
- Trust & Safety experience or experience supporting user safety, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, or risk mitigation initiatives is a plus.
- Typically requires 6-8 years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.
Compensation
- Final Compensation
Benefits
- Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility.
- Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
- Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
- Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
- Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
Company info
- Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo.
- The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections.
- Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF).
- BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests.
- Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
- We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application.
- Please don't use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews.
- We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.
- Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.
- AI is important to us.
- Final Compensation
- Benefits & Perks
- Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time
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