Senior Privacy Engineer - Build Open Data Tools (Remote)

Block; 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 seeking a Software Engineer for Privacy Engineering to build internal tools and infrastructure that protect customer privacy. You will collaborate with product, security, and legal teams while working fully remotely.

You will contribute to data governance and privacy initiatives across Block’s engineering ecosystem. The role emphasizes scalable, secure code and mentorship, with a focus on enabling responsible data use and customer-centric privacy improvements across Square, Cash App,

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience writing quality scalable, robust and testable code.
• Interest in learning new technologies or languages.
• Experience cutting across services, infrastructure, or frameworks in novel ways to achieve security and privacy goals.
• Experience explaining complex technical security or privacy concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services or infrastructure that support data privacy initiatives and consumer’s privacy rights across Block’s engineering ecosystem
• Help define the technological future of privacy at Block
• Collaborate with other engineering teams incorporating privacy engineering products into their engineered solutions
• Provide mentorship and reviews for engineering teams working with privacy technologies
• Contribute to the monitoring and stability of our team’s existing engineering solutions

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Quality scalable code

Interest in learning new tech

Cross-service privacy

Explain security/privacy concepts

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Linux

Terraform

AWS

MySQL

Job description

Block is seeking a Software Engineer for Privacy Engineering to build internal tools and infrastructure that protect customer privacy. You will collaborate with product, security, and legal teams while working fully remotely.

You will contribute to data governance and privacy initiatives across Block’s engineering ecosystem. The role emphasizes scalable, secure code and mentorship, with a focus on enabling responsible data use and customer-centric privacy improvements across Square, Cash App,