Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

2 weeks, 1 day 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.

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