Senior Data Engineer - Risk & Compliance AI Pipelines

Cash App; New York (NY); Remote; USD 198,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Block’s Cash App data teams seek a senior Data Engineer to design and optimize data models and pipelines spanning multiple products. You will enable risk and compliance analysis by building reliable datasets and AI-enabled automation across global data platforms.

Responsibilities include defining metrics, ensuring data quality, monitoring lineage, and partnering with product teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions. This role supports remote work with global teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience with Bachelor’s or 8+ years with Master’s or equivalent.
• Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions across lifecycle stages.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt; strong data governance skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and optimization of data models and AI-driven data pipelines.
• Standardize metric definitions and build data dictionaries.
• Build monitoring for data quality and lineage; develop AI agents for automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations; diagnose and fix critical pipelines to meet SLAs.
• Collaborate with product and non-technical partners to define data requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python proficiency

Dbt proficiency

Data modeling

ETL pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Dbt

Github

Airflow

Prefect

Omni

Terraform

Job description

Block’s Cash App data teams seek a senior Data Engineer to design and optimize data models and pipelines spanning multiple products. You will enable risk and compliance analysis by building reliable datasets and AI-enabled automation across global data platforms.

Responsibilities include defining metrics, ensuring data quality, monitoring lineage, and partnering with product teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions. This role supports remote work with global teams.