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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Security Software Engineer - **Company:** Ai In Bumble Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Software Tools, Security Software, Software Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Software Security, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/43183d34-7b05-401b-9088-7efd0b1e0ae1 ## About the Role * 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., Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations. ## 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. ## Related Videos - [The New AI Security Stack: Observe, Detect, Protect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100302-the-new-ai-security-stack-observe-detect-protect) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [Automated Security for the Entire SDLC](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100323-automated-security-for-the-entire-sdlc) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Are Software Engineer Wages Being Pushed Down? 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