Senior Data Engineer

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

The Compliance Engineering & Technology (CET) team at Block supports the detection and reporting of suspicious financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We work globally with partners in business, engineering, counsel, and product to provide a safe user experience for our customers while minimizing and potentially eliminating bad activity on our platform.

You will work remotely and report to the CET - Data Engineering Manager. As a Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding. You will help other compliance teams to make impactful decisions by laying the foundation of our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products.

You Will

• Work with engineering and product teams to design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches
• Create brand new and optimize existing data models and schemas on top of Block data including but not limited to eventing, customer level, and process level data
• Build monitoring to assess the health of the team’s infrastructure and data quality and lineage
• Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders
• Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions
• Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation
• Teach and encourage others to self-serve by building tools that make it simpler and faster for them to do so

You Have

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Github
• Airflow
• Prefect
• Looker
• Tableau

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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 local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.