Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Platform Engineering at Afterpay and Block

Afterpay’s Platform Engineering is responsible for the build, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of the underlying cloud infrastructure that powers Afterpay’s platform. Our customers are the internal Afterpay product teams; our work enables them to focus on building new product features leveraging our highly available infrastructure platform. It is our objective to ensure product development teams can provision new services to the platform quickly, easily and safely.

Your Skills

The Kompute Kubernetes team needs k8s experts. You have multiple years experience working with and managing Kubernetes clusters (all flavours welcome). You have a strong grasp of Kubernetes fundamentals, understand its internal workings and are able to guide development teams in their journey to adopt and scale their applications on Kubernetes. Ideally you have expertise in some or all of the following areas: cluster networking & service mesh management, cluster scalability & resiliency, cluster security.

A great candidate for Platform Engineering will have experience with many of the following technologies which are in use at Block:

• Public cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure

• Container orchestration - Kubernetes, EKS/GKE, ECS Fargate

• Cloud networking - VPCs, AWS TGW, Cloudflare, Fastly

• Infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, CloudFormation

• Observability - Prometheus, SumoLogic, New Relic, Datadog

• Software development - Golang, Python, Bash, Rust

• Cloud databases - RDS, Global Aurora, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB

• Scalable CI/CD toolchains - Buildkite, Github, Artifactory, Docker registries

• Load Testing - K6, Gatling

About You

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience with AWS strongly preferred

• Software development skills are highly desirable

• You’re most at home in the shell on linux-based systems

• Day-to-day working knowledge of foundational tools like git, docker, bash

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Willingness to learn and an appetite to push the boundaries

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.