Senior Security Software Engineer

About the role

The Security Engineering team at Bumble 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.

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
• Create 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
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, platform services, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices
• Understanding of application security, platform security, security monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management, or security engineering practices
• Experience with AI-powered engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency

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
• 401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
• Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
• Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 weeks paid parental leave
• Premium App Access
• Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Pay

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

Schedule

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.