Senior Data Platform Engineer: Scale, Governance & BI

Block; California; Remote; USD 153,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Job summary

Block is hiring an experienced software engineer to build and own the data platform that helps teams work with trusted data at scale. You will shape foundations for data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, governance, and agentic workflows.

You will partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to deliver durable platform capabilities, write reliable Python services, and implement infrastructure as code with Terraform while maintaining security and observability.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineer 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 modern data platforms such as Snowflake/Databricks.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.

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 governance, security, reliability, and usability.
• Partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to turn needs into platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and build agentic workflows with proper controls and observability.
• Set technical direction and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Python

Data platforms

Terraform

Data governance

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Production systems

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Block is hiring an experienced software engineer to build and own the data platform that helps teams work with trusted data at scale. You will shape foundations for data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, governance, and agentic workflows.

You will partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to deliver durable platform capabilities, write reliable Python services, and implement infrastructure as code with Terraform while maintaining security and observability.