Security Engineer: Risk, Continuity & Data Governance

Block; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Block, Inc. is hiring a Senior risk management engineer within SFS Risk Management to scale third‑party risk and business continuity frameworks across Block and SFS.

You’ll design data pipelines, integrations, and agentic AI workflows that turn governance into product‑like capabilities. You will own a cross‑functional program, define the technical approach, and partner with Security, Procurement, Resilience and Engineering to reduce risk while maintaining agility.

Qualifications

• Experience with third-party risk management and business continuity frameworks.
• Backend, data, or platform software development experience.
• Hands-on with LLMs, agents, or AI‑backed features.
• Experience integrating systems via REST APIs and event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Third-party risk management

Business continuity

Backend software development

Python

Java

Kotlin

Go

LLMs and agents

REST APIs

Data integration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Buildkite

Snowflake

Job description

Block, Inc. is hiring a Senior risk management engineer within SFS Risk Management to scale third‑party risk and business continuity frameworks across Block and SFS.

You’ll design data pipelines, integrations, and agentic AI workflows that turn governance into product‑like capabilities. You will own a cross‑functional program, define the technical approach, and partner with Security, Procurement, Resilience and Engineering to reduce risk while maintaining agility.