Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

2 hours, 51 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
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

  • Design, build, and operate platform systems that help engineers ship software with greater confidence and speed.
  • Work across deployment orchestration, CI/CD, Kubernetes, event streaming, databases, internal developer platforms, and reliability tooling.
  • Partner with engineering teams to understand workflows, identify platform gaps, and deliver practical solutions.
  • Help unify and modernize existing platforms while creating new ones where stronger foundations are needed.
  • Use AI tools to accelerate development, improve system understanding, prototype ideas, and raise engineering output quality.
  • Lead technical projects from problem framing through implementation, rollout, and operational ownership.
  • Make tradeoffs between speed, reliability, maintainability, and long-term platform direction.
  • Contribute to a culture of curiosity, direct communication, early ownership, and learning through shipping.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3 years with a Master's degree, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience building, operating, or improving backend or infrastructure systems used by engineering teams.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across unfamiliar systems, codebases, and technical domains.
  • Experience in one or more platform areas such as deployment systems, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Kafka or event streaming, Temporal, databases, observability, service infrastructure, or developer tooling.
  • Track record of turning ambiguous technical problems into clear plans and working solutions.
  • Comfort partnering with engineers and technical leaders across teams to understand needs, explain tradeoffs, and drive decisions.
  • Interest in using AI as part of an engineering workflow and helping others apply it well.
  • Curiosity, judgment, and willingness to ask questions early so the team can move with clarity.
  • Experience with Go, Java, or Ruby, as part of the technologies used and taught, is relevant.

Benefits

  • Starting salary range of $185,200 to $326,800 USD depending on zone, location, experience, and market conditions.
  • Remote work options.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Modern family planning benefits.
  • Inclusive interview experience with reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Staff Software Engineer

Alphasense 51-250 Industrial Conglomerates

AlphaSense is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its Reference and Entity Data Systems platform, which turns global vendor data into authoritative records that power downstream products and customers.

System Design
1 hour, 10 minutes ago

Senior Clinical AI Engineer

Insight Timer 251-1K Media

Insight Timer is hiring a Senior Clinical AI Engineer to build production AI experiences for meditation, mental health, and wellbeing at global scale, while shaping the clinical and evidence-informed logic that keeps them safe and useful.

Python
1 hour, 14 minutes ago

SAP ABAP HCM Developer

Intetics 1K-5K Internet Software & Services

Intetics Inc. is seeking a SAP ABAP HCM Developer to support complex SAP HCM work for large-scale German public sector projects, translating technical and legal requirements into system functionality.

SAP ABAP
2 hours, 10 minutes ago

Middleware Engineer

Innovecs 251-1K Capital Markets

Innovecs is hiring for a role at its global digital services company, supporting software solutions across supply chain, healthtech, collaboration tech, or gaming.

2 hours, 13 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers