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.

As a Senior Data Engineer on the Enterprise Engineering team, you will be responsible for working on a variety of data projects. This includes architecting, implementing and managing data models and data pipelines, developing, maintaining and upscaling the cloud data platform/services vital to the continued growth of Block as well as shaping our data engineering best practices.  

Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders across Block to understand data needs and surface those data on our data platform, monitor and maintain its quality and governance, and have an impact on the data ecosystem within Block. You are a self-starter and you are comfortable working cross-functionally with other teams across Block.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is experienced in cloud native data practices and wants to build their career within a fast-growing, global company.

You will:

• Create robust and automated pipelines to ingest and process data from source systems into cloud data analytical warehouses using batch and streaming mechanisms leveraging cloud native toolset
• Partner with key business stakeholders, upstream infrastructure platform engineering teams, and downstream data consumers to understand data and translate business requirements into technical design of building scalable data pipelines
• Helps build, modernize, and maintain services and tooling to ensure resiliency and quality, resolve data discrepancies, and enhance the customer experience
• Engineers and supports data structures, access control, governance and SOX compliance on Snowflake data warehouse
• Be self-driven in identifying gaps and root causes, designing and implementing solutions to stabilize and scale data solutions
• Monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with key stakeholders
• Provide leadership and guidance for data engineering design across multiple initiatives and functional areas. Mentor other engineers and help them grow; code reviews, guidance on best practices, leveraging your experience in the field

You Have

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering
• Strong technical intuition and ability to understand complex business systems
• Advanced experience orchestrating data pipelines, designing and build database systems and scalable data models
• Proficient technical knowledge in Python, SQL, Spark
• Hands on experience in processing extremely large data volume
• Experience with Airflow or Prefect, and Snowflake 
• Proven experience working with cloud environments, such as AWS and GCP

Highly desirable skills include:

• DevOps experience
• Software Engineering background
• Snowflake

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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, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other 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.

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.