Bumble

Senior Security Software Engineer

Bumble
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15 hours ago

Base Salary

$190k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable software systems across Bumble’s products, platforms, and enterprise environments.
  • Develop services, APIs, automation, and security tooling for Product Security, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense teams.
  • Build and optimize security data pipelines that collect, enrich, process, and surface actionable security telemetry.
  • Create observability capabilities for security posture, application and infrastructure security, platform health, and operational risk.
  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, platform, Trust & Safety, and security teams to embed secure-by-design practices.
  • Improve detection and response, reduce manual effort, and enable faster security decision-making through scalable solutions.
  • Use AI tools and techniques responsibly to improve engineering productivity, analysis, automation, and security outcomes.

Requirements

  • Strong production experience building distributed systems, services, APIs, platforms, or backend applications.
  • Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions using modern engineering practices.
  • Experience with data pipelines, telemetry platforms, event-driven systems, or large-scale data processing.
  • Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, diagnostics, and operational visibility.
  • Experience 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.
  • Ability to solve complex technical challenges independently, evaluate trade-offs, and influence technical direction.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a record of delivering measurable outcomes.
  • Experience using AI-powered engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency.
  • Trust & Safety, user safety, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, or risk mitigation experience is a plus.
  • Typically requires 6–8 years of experience, though equivalent skills demonstrated through alternative backgrounds are welcomed.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 30-day eligibility and coverage available on the first of the month following hire.
  • Unlimited PTO, one company-wide week off, and weekly Focus Fridays.
  • Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with a 4% company match when contributing 6%, with 90-day eligibility.
  • Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line.
  • Maternity and fertility benefits plus 26 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Premium App Access.
  • Austin-based role requiring a commutable distance to the office and regular onsite collaboration.

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Bumble

About Bumble

1,001-5,000 employees

Bumble Inc. builds consumer social apps for dating and friendship, including Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The company runs a freemium business with subscriptions and in‑app purchases, and is publicly traded on Nasdaq as BMBL; founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, it is headquartered in Austin, Texas and serves a global user base.

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