Block

Block

Block is a company that consists of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and foundational teams. They are focused on economic empowerment by creating tools to expand access to the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow businesses, Cash App redefin...

Capital Markets
10K-50K
Founded 2009

Description

  • Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability.
  • Work toward company-wide reliability goals across multiple platforms and organizations.
  • Standardize reliability tools across teams and systems.
  • Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization efforts for sev 0–1 incidents.
  • Serve as primary on-call for Tier 0 services and maintain structured escalation paths.
  • Lead incident command, mitigation, and escalation during high-severity events.
  • Drive platform-wide reliability improvements, shared operational tooling, and deploy-safety patterns.
  • Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis.
  • Design and implement safe deployment patterns such as progressive delivery, automated rollback, and guardrails.
  • Improve observability, incident detection and response, and operational workflows through automation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • Experience running production on-call for high-availability systems.
  • Strong incident management skills, including structured triage, mitigation under pressure, and blameless postmortems.
  • Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollout strategies, and rollback automation.
  • Monitoring and observability expertise, including tuning alerts for uptime, error rates, latency regression, and resource exhaustion.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven tooling for observability, incident analysis, or automation.
  • A mindset that naturally uses AI to accelerate problem-solving and reduce toil.
  • Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous backend or platform-focused projects.
  • Ability to create and maintain evidence-based maturity assessments using trailing 90-day data windows.
  • Comfort with vendor and dependency management, including maintaining validated escalation contacts reachable within 5 minutes.

Benefits

  • Remote work.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Modern family planning benefits.
  • A globally distributed work environment with collaboration across multiple time zones.
  • Reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process for disabled applicants.

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