Senior Data Engineer, Risk

Block; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 178,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Retirement savings

Job summary

Block is hiring a Data Engineer to support compliance and risk data initiatives across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. You will lead data modeling, pipeline tooling, and dashboarding to enable informed decisions with AI-enabled automation.

The role emphasizes end-to-end data lifecycle, data quality monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and legal teams. Remote-friendly, with emphasis on scalable data foundations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, or equivalent experience.
• Strong SQL, Python, and dbt expertise.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and optimization of data models and pipelines.
• Create data dictionaries and documentation for datasets.
• Build monitoring for data quality and lineage; automate AI agents for anomaly resolution.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and compliance teams to translate needs into data solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Dbt

Github

Airflow

Prefect

OmniTerraform

Job description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

As a Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding. You will enable other compliance and risk teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products. This role will support compliance or risk product data engineering teams.The

Compliance Data Engineering team

at Block supports the detection and reporting of suspicious financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We work globally with partners in business, engineering, counsel, and product to provide a safe user experience for our customers while minimizing and potentially eliminating bad activity on our platform.

Risk Product Data Engineering team

at Block builds reliable data foundations that help protect customers across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We partner with product, engineering, compliance, and legal teams to support risk detection, reporting, instrumentation, and ML-ready datasets across critical domains including identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes.

You Will

Lead the creation and optimization of existing data models through AI code generation on eventing, customer level, and process level data. Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation. Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and on top 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 come up with automated end-to-end solutions.

You Have

A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience. 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 technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect, as well as Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling. Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring. Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation.

Technologies We Use and Teach

SnowflakeDatabricksDbtGithubAirflowPrefectOmniTerraform

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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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 your recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate.

Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

• Zone A:$198,000—$297,000 USD
• Zone B:$188,100—$282,100 USD
• Zone C:$178,200—$267,400 USD
• Zone D:$168,300—$252,500 USD

Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people.

Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.