Senior Data Platform Engineer — Remote & Scale Data

Unchain Data; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Family planning

Job summary

Block is hiring a senior software engineer to own the data platform, enabling teams to work with trusted data at scale. You will shape data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, and governance while building scalable Python services and developer tools.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to deliver durable platform capabilities, set technical direction, and raise engineering standards across the company.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineering experience, with a track record of designing, shipping, and operating production systems.
• Hands-on experience building or operating data platforms, data products, or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable modern data platforms.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Understanding of petabyte-scale data tradeoffs: performance, cost, reliability, access controls, lineage, quality, and governance.
• Experience collaborating with data practitioners and leading across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core data-platform capabilities, including data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, and data governance.
• Build reliable Python services and developer-facing tools for data products.
• Develop scalable infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Establish patterns for petabyte-scale data with strong governance and observability.
• Partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to translate needs into durable platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and implement agentic workflows that improve data work while maintaining controls.
• Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Senior-level engineering

Python

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Apache Iceberg

Terraform

Buildkite

GitOps

DataHub

Anomalo

Looker

Omni

AWS

Job description

Block is hiring a senior software engineer to own the data platform, enabling teams to work with trusted data at scale. You will shape data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, and governance while building scalable Python services and developer tools.

You will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to deliver durable platform capabilities, set technical direction, and raise engineering standards across the company.