Description
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Team: Infrastructure Engineering
Location: US TX Austin
Commitment: Employee - Regular/Permanent
Workplace Type: hybrid
Salary:
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. This position is also typically eligible to participate in our short- and long-term incentive programs. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy.
Maven Fertility: $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more.
26 Weeks Parental Leave: For both primary and secondary caregivers.
Family & Compassionate Leave: Inclusive of domestic violence recovery.
Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need.
Company-wide Week Off: Annual collective rest for the entire company.
Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines—just deep work.
We are looking for an experienced engineer with strong Linux and system-level expertise who can operate autonomously in complex production environments. You must be able to independently troubleshoot incidents, lead and support post-incident service recovery, and drive improvements to overall system stability, performance, and observability. We are looking for a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong background in Linux infrastructure and third-party system operations.
This role focuses on managing and optimizing large-scale environments (5,000+ hosts) running technologies like Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
The position does not involve application development but requires deep operational expertise and solid troubleshooting skills.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration or SRE roles
- Proven experience managing large-scale infrastructure environments
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud)
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills at the infrastructure level
- Basic scripting/automation experience (Bash, Python)
- Familiarity with IaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet)
- Knowledge of distributed systems and container orchestration (Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Location
- This role is based in Austin, and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office, so that you’re able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.
- We have a hybrid environment that requires you to be in the office 3x/week
- On-call rotation: one week every 4–5 weeks (24x7 coverage).
- Regular maintenance outside of business hours is generally not expected.
- Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time
Why join us?
- Own meaningful projects that directly impact millions of Bumble users.
- Learn and grow in a high-performing engineering team committed to mentorship and learning.
- Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
- Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world-class benefits.
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.
AI Fluency
AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.
We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.
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.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
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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