Senior Data Streaming Engineer — Remote

Block, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 245,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Family planning

Job summary

Block, Inc. is seeking a Staff-level Senior Software Engineer for the Data Enablement team to design and operate real-time data platforms.

You will own online projections and event streams, shaping the architecture and standards for low-latency data products across the company. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to build streaming pipelines using Kafka, Spark, and cloud-native tech, while mentoring engineers and advancing the team's technical direction in a remote Bay Area

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, high-throughput backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka.
• Experience building streaming or real-time data systems; Spark Structured Streaming or Flink preferred.
• Proficiency in a JVM language such as Kotlin.
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• A track record of leading technical projects and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Become the subject-matter expert for Block's online data projections and event-streaming capabilities.
• Lead the technical direction for real-time, event-driven data systems used by Block’s business units.
• Build and operate streaming pipelines and projection frameworks on high-volume event data.
• Partner with engineering teams across Block to turn Kafka event streams into reliable, low-latency data products.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and data quality of streaming systems running in production.
• Mentor engineers on the team and shape platform architecture and standards.
• Contribute to and grow familiar with the team's other domains over time.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

Spark Streaming

Kotlin

AWS

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Block, Inc. is seeking a Staff-level Senior Software Engineer for the Data Enablement team to design and operate real-time data platforms.

You will own online projections and event streams, shaping the architecture and standards for low-latency data products across the company. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to build streaming pipelines using Kafka, Spark, and cloud-native tech, while mentoring engineers and advancing the team's technical direction in a remote Bay Area