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Tinder

Dating app platform with freemium model

Staff Platform Engineer - Cloud

Full-TimePosted on 10/23/2026
$160.5k - $192.8k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Los Angeles, CA, USA
HybridHybrid; when not telecommuting, report to West Hollywood, California.
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus five years of experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or in a role performing platform-focused software engineering, DevOps engineering, or site reliability engineering; alternatively, a master's degree or U.S. equivalent in those fields plus three years of such experience.
  • Three years of professional experience administering a Kubernetes-based platform, including supporting multi-cluster setups and clusters hosted on cloud platforms including EKS.
  • Three years of professional experience administering Linux systems, including Linux-based containers, with demonstrated ability to tune system performance and troubleshoot operating system issues.
  • Three years of professional experience configuring and administering observability tools, including establishing alerts and incident management ceremonies.
  • Two years of professional experience supporting a large-scale microservice-based platform, including maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, ingress/egress, service-to-service communication (mesh), and service-to-resource integrations (RDBMes, messaging/streaming, and caches).
  • Two years of professional experience working with cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and finance, responding to security and compliance issues and FinOps-related tasks.
  • Two years of professional experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms, managing multiaccount, multiregion environments provisioned using infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform.
  • Two years of professional experience developing software using a compiled language such as Java, or developing and scripting in an interpreted language such as Python.
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and support infrastructure components, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and other third-party solutions.
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues to support engineering teams and maintain continuity of business operations.
  • Develop and maintain standardized infrastructure, backend, and database configurations to ensure systems are consistent, reliable, observable, scalable, and performant.
  • Evaluate and implement improvements to infrastructure systems as technologies and operational practices evolve.
  • Design and implement development lifecycle processes with backend engineers, including version-control repository structures, CI/CD workflows, test automation practices, release processes, documentation standards, and monitoring and alerting configurations.
  • Collaborate with product managers, security, IT, and finance to support timely delivery, infrastructure security, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Provide technical assistance and knowledge sharing to engineering team members by participating in interviews, delivering technical knowledge-sharing sessions, and supporting peer learning related to infrastructure systems and tooling.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices relevant to infrastructure engineering and implement approved technical initiatives supporting infrastructure roadmap objectives and system improvements.

About the company

Tinder is an online dating platform that lets people create profiles and swipe on others to express interest, leading to matches and conversations. It operates on a freemium model where basic features are free and premium tiers (Plus, Gold, Platinum) plus in-app purchases unlock extras like unlimited swipes and global swiping with Passport. Its size and language coverage set it apart, with hundreds of millions of users across many countries and languages, and a strong brand presence. The goal is to help people meet and start conversations at scale by making dating easier and more accessible worldwide.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$750M

Headquarters

West Hollywood, California

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • Q1 2026 Tinder direct revenue rose 2% to $454.7 million.
  • Face Check cut bad-actor interactions over 50%, strengthening trust and retention.
  • Chemistry testing in Australia, U.S., and Canada targets Gen Z swipe fatigue.

What critics are saying

  • Tinder paying users fell 5% to 8.6 million in Q1 2026.
  • The December 16, 2025 Denver lawsuit keeps rape-risk and governance headlines alive.
  • AI dating rivals and safety scandals collapse Tinder's brand moat within 24 months.

What makes Tinder unique

  • Face Check and World ID make Tinder the strongest anti-bot dating platform.
  • Spencer Rascoff's March 12, 2026 rebrand adds AI, Events, and video speed dating.
  • Tinder's 190-country scale gives unmatched liquidity for fast, local matching.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays
  • Mental Health Support
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility Treatment Support
  • Childcare Support
  • Pet Insurance
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

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Fortune
Oct 19th, 2026
Tinder's new CEO introduced "sparks" to revive growth as paying users fell 5% to 8.5M

Spencer Rascoff, who became chief executive officer of Match Group in February 2025 and of Tinder in July, says the dating app lost product market fit because it stopped innovating. In 2024, Tinder's paying users fell 7% while revenue grew 1%. Rascoff asked employees what success looked like and got blank stares. Many cited quarterly profit targets, not the user experience. He introduced a metric called "sparks": conversations between matched users that reach at least six back-and-forth exchanges. Tinder is also adding double dates, real-world events, and AI-powered recommendations. AI helps it ship 70% more code than a year earlier. Matches are up 14% year-over-year, but growth remains elusive. In the second quarter, revenue fell 1% to roughly $457 million, paying users dropped 5% to 8.5 million, and daily active users fell 4%.

Bloomberg
May 5th, 2026
Tinder returns to new user growth as Match Group revenue hits $864M

Match Group reported first-quarter revenue of $864 million, up 4% year-on-year and beating analysts' estimates of $855 million. The company said the decline in Tinder users has moderated, suggesting its turnaround strategy is gaining traction with younger daters. Match cited growing momentum from Tinder's ongoing product enhancements as a key driver of the performance.

Fox Business
Apr 18th, 2026
Tinder partners with Sam Altman's World for eye-scan verification to combat AI-driven romance scams

Tinder is partnering with World, formerly Worldcoin, to use eye-scanning technology to verify users are human amid rising concerns over AI-powered romance scams. Romance scammers netted over $300 million in 2020, according to the company. World, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, uses a spherical device called "the Orb" to verify humanness through temporary memory that isn't stored. Following verification, users receive a badge proving they're real, which Tinder says will lead to higher-quality connections. Verified users will also receive five free "Boosts" for a limited time. The verification system launched as a pilot in Japan through Tinder's parent company Match Group and will expand to US users. Other companies adopting World's "proof of human" technology include Zoom, Docusign, Shopify and Coinbase.

Tech in Asia
Apr 9th, 2026
Tinder adds facial verification in Singapore amid 7% user decline and legal pressure

Tinder has launched a facial verification feature in Singapore, requiring users to submit video selfies that are deleted after review while an encrypted face map is stored to verify photos and detect fraud. The rollout comes as Tinder faces declining engagement, with paying users down 7% in 2024 and millennials reducing daily dating app usage from 90 minutes in 2018 to 56 minutes in 2024. The company also faces legal pressure after six women sued Match Group in December 2025, alleging failure to remove a convicted rapist despite repeated reports. Singapore's Online Criminal Harms Act requires social media companies to implement facial recognition to combat impersonation scams. The country pioneered facial verification for its national digital ID system, SingPass, in 2020.

Wired
Mar 20th, 2026
Tinder unveils rebrand with AI features to fix dating culture it helped create

Tinder has unveiled over a dozen new features as part of a rebrand under CEO Spencer Rascoff, aiming to shift focus from matches to meaningful connections. The world's most popular dating app has seen paying members drop 8% to 8.8 million in Q4 2025. Key features include Double Date, which pairs users with friends to swipe together, astrology-based matching, and Chemistry, an AI tool analysing camera rolls to understand interests. The company is also enhancing safety features like "Are You Sure?" for potentially harmful messages. The rebrand marks an attempt to revitalise a dating landscape many say Tinder helped ruin. Launched in 2012, the app popularised swipe-based dating but has struggled to innovate as users began treating digital courtship like a game. Rascoff stated the company's priorities have shifted: "Just getting matches is not the goal.