Senior Security Software Engineer

Role Overview

• 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.

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 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.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems

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 week paid parental leave
• Premium App Access