Security Engineer, Risk & Business Continuity (Remote)

Block; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 162,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Retirement plans

Job summary

Block is seeking a senior risk-focused engineer to scale third-party risk management and business continuity programs. You will design pipelines that unify risk signals across systems, implement policy-as-code, and build agentic AI flows that offer auditable decision layers.

You will own cross-team initiatives, work with Security, Resilience, and Engineering, and drive reliability with on-call responsibilities and SLOs in a fast-paced, early-stage program.

Qualifications

• Experience in third-party risk management and business continuity programs.
• 4+ years building production software in backend, platform, data, or software engineering.
• Ownership of a production system with on-call responsibilities and SLOs.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Kotlin, Java, or Go; able to read unfamiliar codebases.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompts, agents, or LLM-backed features.

Responsibilities

• Own and operationalize a third-party risk management and business continuity program.
• Define the technical approach for ambiguous, cross-team problems in an early-stage program.
• Build and operate data pipelines and integrations across systems of record.
• Translate standards into policy-as-code and versioned checks.
• Design agentic AI workflows combining LLM reasoning with auditable decision layers.
• Automate evidence collection and continuous control monitoring.
• Collaborate with Security, Procurement, Resilience, and Engineering teams.
• Contribute to technical design discussions on platform reliability.

Skills

Third-party risk management

Business continuity

Backend development

LLMs and agents

Data integration

REST APIs / event-driven

On-call / SLOs

Team collaboration

Tools

Python

Java

Kotlin

Go

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Buildkite

Job description

Block is seeking a senior risk-focused engineer to scale third-party risk management and business continuity programs. You will design pipelines that unify risk signals across systems, implement policy-as-code, and build agentic AI flows that offer auditable decision layers.

You will own cross-team initiatives, work with Security, Resilience, and Engineering, and drive reliability with on-call responsibilities and SLOs in a fast-paced, early-stage program.