Senior Security Engineer, Security Engineering & Operations

Block•Bay Area, CA, United States of America, CA

4d•$153,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

The Security Engineering & Operations team (SecEngOps) within Infrastructure Security help other teams across InfoSec, Compliance and Partner Product teams to protect Block systems, users & customers; encouraging our employees to behave securely; identifying security threats; and responding to incidents. Our customers expect us to protect their data and assets. As Block grows and expands, cyber security will play an increasingly important role in preventing disruption and protecting our reputation. The team is composed of software engineers, who are not only focused and passionate about designing, implementing and maintaining software and services but also monitoring and improving their operational posture - SLA / SLO for uptime, service reliability, performance and deployment automation.

Requirements

5+ years of industry experience as a programer, developer, SWE, or similar job roles
A strong interest in security and growing your career in the direction of InfoSec (prior experience in InfoSec not required)
Comfortable working with outside teams to address problems and determine priorities
Experience using cloud-native technologies for data processing
Experience working in or with SRE or security detection and response teams

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, cloud-native security data pipelines and detection systems — leveraging SIEM platforms, event-driven architectures, and large-scale log processing to stay ahead of real-world threats
Collaborate with the team to strengthen our security posture — through detection engineering reviews, threat scenario design, and contributing to Kubernetes and cloud-native security controls
Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure rapid response and continuous protection for our platform and customers when it matters most