Senior Network Engineer

Bumble is seeking a Network Engineer to maintain a stable, predictable, controllable, and secure network.
This role will be based in London, reporting to the Senior Infrastructure Manager, Data Centre

What you'll do:
• Support and evolve Bumble’s global network infrastructure across multiple data centres and offices, including diagnostics of network subsystems within Linux servers (primarily CentOS/RHEL).
• Improve network reliability and operational efficiency through configuration management, automation, and continuous optimisation of BAU tasks.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of cloud networking as we migrate a significant portion of our workloads into cloud environments.
• Collaborate closely with Systems Engineering and SRE teams, sharing networking expertise, participating in design reviews, and shaping resilient, secure platform architectures.
• Manage relationships with global service providers, including IP transit operators, to ensure optimal performance, availability, and accountability.
• Own IP address management, including subnet allocation, VLAN design, and maintaining accurate documentation.
• Strengthen Bumble’s security posture by contributing to perimeter defence, segmentation strategy, and proactive threat prevention.
• Participate in the on-call rota to maintain platform availability and support timely incident response.

Qualifications:
• Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Linux systems engineering experience (preferably rpm-based distributions such as RHEL or CentOS).
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills spanning application performance, traffic-delivery issues, and complex multi-layer networking challenges.
• Deep understanding of networking across L1–L4 and L7, including copper/optics, Ethernet, and static/dynamic routing.
• Production experience with IS-IS and BGP (OSPF familiarity beneficial).
• Extensive hands-on experience with Juniper MX, SRX, and QFX devices.
• Practical experience implementing and supporting EVPN-VXLAN architectures.
• Strong background in load balancing (CARP, IPVS, userspace, or enterprise solutions) and packet filtering.
• Experience building and supporting cloud networking architectures (VPC structures, virtual routing, firewalling, hybrid connectivity, etc.).
• Proficiency with 802.1X, 802.1Q, and bonding/teaming at both the server and network hardware layers.
• Strong diagnostic capabilities with IPv4, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, and DNS (IPv6 is a plus).
• Ability to perform end-to-end troubleshooting—from switch ports and optical links down to Linux kernel networking, NIC behaviour, iptables/nftables, and iproute2.
• Experience designing or operating DDoS mitigation strategies.
• Proven effectiveness working within cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience supporting a segmented, heterogeneous network environment (300+ dataports).
• Solid understanding of information security principles with the ability to balance practicality and protection.

• Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience working with CDNs and high-traffic systems.
• Familiarity with network automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• Exposure to network telemetry, observability systems, or flow-analysis platforms.
• Experience designing or deploying IPv6 at scale.
• Background in collaborating within SRE or platform engineering environments.

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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