Senior Security Software Engineer

Bumble; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401k with company match

Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance

Monthly wellness benefit

Maternity and fertility benefits

Premium App Access

Job summary

Bumble is looking for a Senior Security Software Engineer to enhance security capabilities across its products and platforms. This role in Austin involves designing secure software systems and collaborating extensively with various teams.

The ideal candidate should have 6–8 years of relevant experience, particularly in building scalable solutions and enhancing security outcomes through innovative techniques. Continuous learning and a passion for engineering excellence are critical traits for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Must have 6–8 years of experience in relevant roles.
• Ability to solve complex technical challenges independently.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and high-quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure software systems.
• Develop APIs and security tooling for teams.
• Create observability capabilities for security posture.

Skills

Strong software engineering experience

Experience building data pipelines

Strong understanding of observability practices

Collaboration skills

Experience with cloud-native architectures

Knowledge of application security

Experience with AI-powered engineering tools

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. 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.

Compensation

190000 - 215000 USD a year

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 Employment

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, 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.