Senior Data Platform Engineer – Backend & Streaming (Remote)

Block; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Remote work option

Flexible time off

Retirement plans

Family planning benefits

Job summary

Block, a company building from many blocks to empower global economic participation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Enablement team. You will design, build, and operate backend systems that move data across Block, enabling data acquisition, processing, and analytics for risk, compliance, and data science.

You will own projects from design through production, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and work across streaming and batch data processing to deliver scalable,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record leading technical projects.
• Experience designing distributed backend systems in production.
• Proficiency in a backend programming language such as Java or Kotlin, with strong software design and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• The ability to learn unfamiliar systems and communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and collaborate across software engineering, data engineering, and data science.
• Bonus points for a data engineering background, including data pipelines, large-scale processing, or lakehouse and warehouse systems.
• Bonus points for hands-on experience with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming.

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

Distributed backend

Project leadership

Cloud computing

Java/Kotlin

AWS experience

Tools

Kafka

Spark Streaming

Job description

Block, a company building from many blocks to empower global economic participation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Enablement team. You will design, build, and operate backend systems that move data across Block, enabling data acquisition, processing, and analytics for risk, compliance, and data science.

You will own projects from design through production, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and work across streaming and batch data processing to deliver scalable,