Senior SRE: AI-Driven Global Platform Reliability

Block; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Block is seeking a member of the SRE team to enhance platform reliability and critical infrastructure. You will be responsible for building robust systems, managing incident response for high-priority services, and implementing deployment patterns.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in software development, incident management skills, and experience with technology tools like AWS, Kotlin, and CI/CD pipelines. This globally distributed role may require flexibility in working hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous projects.
• Strong incident management skills — structured triage and blameless postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability.
• Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations.
• Drive platform-wide reliability improvements and deploy-safety patterns.

Skills

AI-driven tooling for observability

Incident management skills

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Software development

Tools

Kotlin

MySQL

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Block is seeking a member of the SRE team to enhance platform reliability and critical infrastructure. You will be responsible for building robust systems, managing incident response for high-priority services, and implementing deployment patterns.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in software development, incident management skills, and experience with technology tools like AWS, Kotlin, and CI/CD pipelines. This globally distributed role may require flexibility in working hours.