Senior Security Software Engineer

About the role

At Bumble, we believe healthy relationships and meaningful connections start with trust. The Security Engineering team protects members, products, platforms, and the business while enabling innovation at scale. As a Senior Security Software Engineer you will build software, data, and observability foundations that strengthen security capabilities across Product Security, Platform Defense, and Security Engineering.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable software systems that enhance security across Bumble’s products, platforms, and enterprise environments.
• Develop high‑quality services, APIs, automation, and security tooling to enable Product Security, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense teams to operate at scale.
• Build and optimize security data pipelines that collect, enrich, process, and surface actionable telemetry from diverse sources.
• Create observability capabilities to improve visibility into security posture, application and infrastructure security, platform health, and operational risk.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, Trust & Safety, and security teams to embed secure‑by‑design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.

Required profile

• 6–8 years of strong software engineering experience building distributed systems, services, APIs, or backend applications in production.
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining scalable software solutions using modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability to build and operate data pipelines, telemetry platforms, or large‑scale event‑driven processing systems.
• Deep understanding of observability practices such as monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and diagnostics.
• Experience with cloud‑native architectures, platform services, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices.

Required skills

• Distributed systems and API development
• Data pipelines and event‑driven processing
• Observability (monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, diagnostics)
• Cloud‑native architectures and automation frameworks
• Application and platform security, security monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management
• AI‑powered engineering tools for productivity and automation