Senior Security Software Engineer

Bumbleinc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

401k with 4% company match

Job summary

Bumbleinc is looking for a Senior Security Software Engineer in Austin to build scalable security software and strengthen security capabilities. This role involves developing high-quality services, optimizing data pipelines, and collaborating across teams to embed secure principles in the software lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills and experience with distributed systems. Benefits include unlimited PTO, comprehensive health insurance, and a 401k plan.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building distributed systems, APIs, or backend applications.
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining scalable software solutions using modern engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of observability practices including monitoring and logging.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable software systems.
• Develop high-quality services, APIs, and automation tools.
• Build and optimize security data pipelines and observability capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Cloud-native architectures

Application security

AI-powered engineering tools

Education

Typically requires 6–8 years of experience

Tools

Telemetry platforms

Automation frameworks

Job description

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.

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.
• 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‑modeling Bumble values of Curiosity, Excellence, and Respect.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

Benefits & Perks:

• 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 week paid parental leave.
• Premium App Access.

Equal Opportunity

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.