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
$190,000 - $215,000 a year
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. This position is also typically eligible to participate in our short- and long-term incentive programs. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy.
Maven Fertility: $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more.
26 Weeks Parental Leave: For both primary and secondary caregivers.
Family & Compassionate Leave: Inclusive of domestic violence recovery.
Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need.
Company-wide Week Off: Annual collective rest for the entire company.
Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines-just deep work.
Final CompensationWill be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.
Benefits & PerksInsurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
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
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