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Bumble is seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer to join its Security Engineering team. The role focuses on building secure, scalable software systems and data foundations that strengthen security capabilities across Product Security, Platform Defense, and Security Engineering.
Key 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 various sources
- Create observability capabilities that improve visibility into security posture, application security, infrastructure security, platform health, and operational risk
- Partner 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
- Collaborate across teams, take ownership of outcomes, and demonstrate an agile mindset
This is a highly collaborative role for an experienced engineer passionate about solving complex technical challenges and creating scalable security solutions. You will work closely with multiple teams to champion responsible adoption of AI and improve both engineering productivity and security outcomes.
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
- 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 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
- Experience leveraging AI-powered engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, curiosity, and delivering high-quality outcomes
- Typically requires 6–8 years of experience, though candidates with alternative backgrounds demonstrating equivalent skills are welcome
- Trust & Safety experience or experience supporting user safety, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, or risk mitigation initiatives is a plus
- Must be within commutable distance to Austin office for regular onsite collaboration
- Visa sponsorship is not available
