Cloud Network Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Job Description

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.

This role is with the Network Platform Engineering (NetEng) who are responsible for the secure design, implementation, maintenance and scaling of Afterpay’s network. They also help enable connectivity across the wider Block group.

NetEng’s customers are internal Afterpay teams as well as other product and platform teams across the wider organisation (Block, Square, Cashapp).

Qualifications

You know your load balancers, VPC endpoints and your TGW route tables. You can explain why you like or dislike VPC peering. Perhaps you know GLBs, and Shared VPC. You know what split-brain DNS is, and when it’s useful. Maybe you were a network sysadmin in a previous job. Nowadays your expectation is to configure everything with code - mostly terraform, and occasionally bash/python.

Required skills & experience:

  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience (AWS preferred)
  • You’re most at home in the shell on linux-based systems
  • Proficiency in foundational tools like git, docker, bash, terraform

Ideally you have expertise in some of the following areas:

  • Public cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Container orchestration - Kubernetes, EKS/GKE
  • Cloud networking - VPCs, AWS Privatelink, AWS Transit Gateway
  • Infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Observability - Datadog, SumoLogic, New Relic, Prometheus
  • Software development - Python, Golang, Bash, Rust
  • Scalable CI/CD toolchains - Buildkite, Github, Docker registries
  • CDN/Edge - Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly

Additional Information

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.

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