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At Bumble, we believe healthy relationships and meaningful connections start with trust. The Security Engineering team plays a critical role in protecting our members, products, platforms, and business while enabling innovation at scale. As a Senior Security Software Engineer, you will build the software, data, and observability foundations that strengthen security capabilities across Product Security, Platform Defense, and Security Engineering. 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. You'll embody our values of Curiosity, Excellence, and Respect while helping teams make informed, secure decisions and championing responsible adoption of AI to improve both engineering productivity and security outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

• Create observability capabilities that improve visibility into security posture, application security, infrastructure security, platform health, and operational risk.

• 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.

• Leverage AI tools and techniques to improve engineering productivity, accelerate analysis, enhance automation, and strengthen security outcomes while ensuring responsible, transparent, and inclusive use of AI.

• Collaborate with purpose, take ownership of outcomes, and demonstrate an agile mindset while role modelling Bumble values of Curiosity, Excellence, and Respect.

About You

• 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.

• 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.

• Strong collaboration skills with a track record of partnering effectively across engineering, security, and business functions to drive measurable outcomes.

• Experience leveraging AI-powered engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency while applying sound human judgment to outputs.

• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, curiosity, and delivering high-quality outcomes that create lasting impact.

• 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.

Location

• This role is based in Austin and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office, so that you’re able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.

• Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time

About Us

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.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

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.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

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