What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Application / Product Security Engineer position at Bumble Inc.?
Location: Austin, TX — Hybrid (2–3 days/week in-office)
Team: Information Security
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At Bumble, we’re building secure, AI-powered systems that make trust and safety intrinsic to every product experience. We’re looking for a Staff Product Security Engineer to lead the transformation of complex security requirements into intuitive, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions.
In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Compliance—designing frameworks and automation that make secure-by-design development seamless. You’ll empower engineers through innovative tooling, AI-driven enablement, and culture-shifting leadership that turns security into a core enabler of innovation.
\n- Research, design, and deliver scalable security tools, frameworks, and automation that streamline secure development.
- Build developer-centric security experiences and self-service capabilities within engineering workflows.
- Leverage AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to create intelligent, context-aware security guidance and automation.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to embed security into design reviews, sprints, and roadmaps.
- Provide expertise across cloud-native, containerized, and service-oriented architectures (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
- Partner with leaders across Engineering and Product to align security with developer velocity and experience.
- 10 years of experience in Application or Product Security.
- Proven expertise in secure software development, threat modeling, and SDLC integration.
- Hands-on experience building or integrating developer-facing security tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud and container security (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering practices and drive security adoption.
- Excellent communication skills and cross-functional leadership.
- Experience with AI security tooling, context-aware automation, or MCP-based architectures.
- Familiarity with workflow automation platforms (n8n, Make.com, Zapier, etc.).
- Experience building agentic AI systems that work collaboratively.
- Understanding of AI privacy and governance in developer workflows.
- Strong coding background and pragmatic build-vs-buy decision-making.
- Build security solutions developers genuinely love to use.
- Lead AI-assisted security innovation at global scale.
- Collaborate in a high-trust, forward-thinking engineering culture.
- Shape how Bumble builds and secures software for the next generation.
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.
Inclusion at Bumble Inc.
Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
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AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring
At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.
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Salary : $255,000 - $285,000