Disruptive
Care
Consumer
Connection &Staff Security Engineer
Bumble
IT
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Jul 15, 2025
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We’re seeking someone with deep technical expertise, strong software engineering instincts, and a passion for innovation in cybersecurity. You should be motivated by solving complex challenges through automation, precision tooling, and strategic application of artificial intelligence to detect, prevent, and respond to threats.
What you'll do
- Design and implement advanced security tools that integrate with infrastructure and development environments to proactively reduce risk.
- Engineer scalable AI/ML-based detection and response systems, with emphasis on behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and contextual access decisions.
- Build and maintain secure-by-design systems that automate identity, access control, and policy enforcement across a hybrid cloud environment.
- Lead the development of internal security platforms and libraries to support engineering teams in building secure applications with minimal friction.
- Collaborate across AppSec, SRE, and Platform Engineering to embed security intelligence into infrastructure pipelines and developer workflows.
- Drive the adoption of real-time threat intelligence and detection-as-code methodologies to enable continuous, automated response.
- Prototype and evaluate novel security techniques, applying open-source tools, academic research, and AI models to practical use cases.
- Guide architecture decisions that affect security posture, providing technical mentorship and thought leadership to engineering teams.
Must Haves
- 10+ years of experience in Security Engineering
- Engineering-first mindset with proven experience building and scaling complex systems, platforms, or developer tooling in security.
- Expertise in designing and delivering security automation and orchestration platforms, ideally leveraging cloud-native technologies (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
- Deep fluency in Python, Go, or similar languages, with experience implementing pipelines, services, and APIs in production environments.
- Working knowledge or hands-on experience applying machine learning or data science techniques to cybersecurity problems.
- Strong grasp of systems internals, identity & access management, and network security fundamentals.
- Able to design systems that balance risk, usability, and operational complexity, especially in fast-moving product and engineering orgs.
- Comfortable with DevSecOps practices, SDLC integration, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and lead engineering efforts across organizational boundaries.
- Motivated by impact and relentless in simplifying security for developers and operations teams.
About Us
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
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