As a senior engineer on the Data Streaming Platform team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines vital to the continued growth of Square. You will collaborate with many teams across Square to understand data needs and turn them into platforms and services, monitor and maintain the health of the data streams, and have an impact on the data ecosystem within Square.

You will:

• Build, enhance, and maintain our real-time data pipeline
• Work with various infrastructure and operations teams to maintain our data infrastructure
• Be self-driven in identifying and documenting feature gaps, and designing and implementing solutions to them
• Help build, modernize, and maintain services and tooling to ensure resiliency, fix data discrepancies, and enhance the customer experience
• Monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders
• Mentor other engineers and help them grow; code reviews, guidance on best practices, leveraging your experience in the field

• 5+ professional background in data infrastructure or backend software development, preferably both.
• Experience working with relational databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Advanced experience in at least one of Python or Java (preferably both), including writing backend services and data processing
• Experience with distributed log systems, such as Kafka and AWS Kinesis
• Experience with cloud environments, such as AWS and GCP
• Experience with container deployment platforms and tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform
• Experience with Airflow, Prefect, or other DAG orchestration tools
• Experience with Javascript / Vue, Ruby, Python, Databricks is a plus.

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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.

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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.