Software Engineer, Data Platform

About the Role

<p>Block builds simple, powerful tools that make progress towards an economy that’s truly open to all.</p> <p>Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone. Join us.</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>We're hiring an experienced software engineer to build and own the data platform that helps teams across the company work with trusted data at scale. This role shapes the foundations for data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and Block's agentic workflows. You'll combine strong software engineering with hands-on experience working closely with data, building platforms that make it safer and faster for data practitioners to discover, produce, transform, govern, and use data.</p> <h2><strong>You Will</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate core data-platform capabilities, including data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence tooling, and data governance.</li> <li>Build reliable Python services and developer-facing tools that improve how teams create and operate data products.</li> <li>Develop scalable infrastructure as code with Terraform.</li> <li>Establish patterns that let teams manage petabyte-scale data while maintaining strong governance, security, reliability, and usability.</li> <li>Partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to turn their needs into durable platform capabilities.</li> <li>Evaluate and build agentic workflows that make data work more effective, while maintaining appropriate controls and observability.</li> <li>Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>You Have</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Senior-level software engineering experience, with strong Python skills and a record of designing, shipping, and operating production systems.</li> <li>Hands-on experience building or operating data platforms, data products, or large-scale data infrastructure.</li> <li>Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable modern data platforms.</li> <li>Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.</li> <li>A practical understanding of the tradeoffs involved in managing petabyte-scale data: performance, cost, reliability, access controls, lineage, quality, and governance.</li> <li>Experience collaborating directly with data practitioners, and empathy for the workflows they use to turn data into decisions.</li> <li>Strong technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to lead across teams.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Technologies We Use and Teach</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Languages:</strong> Python, Kotlin</li> <li><strong>Data platforms:</strong> Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg</li> <li><strong>Orchestration &amp; transformation:</strong> Apache Airflow, dbt, Prefect</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure as code &amp; CI/CD:</strong> Terraform, Buildkite, GitOps</li> <li><strong>Catalog, lineage &amp; data quality:</strong> DataHub, Anomalo</li> <li><strong>BI &amp; analytics:</strong> Looker, Omni</li> <li><strong>Cloud:</strong> AWS</li> </ul> <p>We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and