Senior Data Engineer – Product Data & Pipelines

Carbon Data Solutions; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Block’s Product Data Engineering Team builds and maintains the curated data foundation that powers Cash App, Square, Afterpay, and Tidal. We transform raw event streams, transactional systems, and operational data into governed, tested, and reliable analytical assets across domains including banking, lending, commerce, investing, and AI assistants.

As a Data Engineer, you will enable various teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of large datasets that span multiple

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 8 years and a Master’s degree.
• High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt.
• Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Experience with ETL scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and optimization of data models across eventing, customer-level, and process-level data, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.
• Take shared or independent technical ownership of critical data pipelines across Block — including foundational customer datasets, money transfer and movement pipelines, and the data infrastructure powering Block's experimentation platform.
• Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and further, build AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution.
• Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders. Automate this process through AI agents to focus human effort on highest priority tasks.
• Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate business requirements into applicable data requirements, and develop automated end-to-end solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Dbt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Equivalent experience

Job description

Block’s Product Data Engineering Team builds and maintains the curated data foundation that powers Cash App, Square, Afterpay, and Tidal. We transform raw event streams, transactional systems, and operational data into governed, tested, and reliable analytical assets across domains including banking, lending, commerce, investing, and AI assistants.

As a Data Engineer, you will enable various teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of large datasets that span multiple