Senior Data Platform Engineer - Backend Enablement (Remote)

Block, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Block, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data Enablement to design, build, and operate backend systems that simplify data access and processing across the company.

You will contribute to Sessions and external data acquisition initiatives, shaping technical direction and delivering reusable platform capabilities. You will join a team tasked with reliable data pipelines, low-latency streaming, and scalable data services, mentoring peers and expanding your domain across backend and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems in production.
• Proven track record leading technical projects and making sound architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared backend services, platforms, and frameworks that support data acquisition, processing, and access across Block.
• Lead projects from problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, and ongoing production operation.
• Work across backend services, event-driven systems, and batch and streaming data processing to deliver reliable capabilities for downstream consumers.
• Partner with software engineers on the team and across the organization, Data Foundations engineers, and data scientists to turn their needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Make practical architectural decisions that balance reliability, latency, scalability, cost, and maintainability.
• Improve the observability, data quality, and operational reliability of the systems you build and support.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and grow familiar with the team’s other domains over time.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Project leadership

Java or Kotlin

AWS

Learning new systems

Kafka & Spark

Data engineering

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Iceberg

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Prefect

AWS

Job description

Block, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data Enablement to design, build, and operate backend systems that simplify data access and processing across the company.

You will contribute to Sessions and external data acquisition initiatives, shaping technical direction and delivering reusable platform capabilities. You will join a team tasked with reliable data pipelines, low-latency streaming, and scalable data services, mentoring peers and expanding your domain across backend and