Software Engineer, Data Platform

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

1d•$153,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

Block is hiring an experienced software engineer to build and own a data platform that helps teams across the company work with trusted data at scale. The role shapes foundations for data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. It combines strong software engineering with hands-on data experience to make it safer and faster for data practitioners to discover, produce, transform, govern, and use data.

Requirements

Senior-level software engineering experience, with strong Python skills and a record of designing, shipping, and operating production systems.
Hands-on experience building or operating data platforms, data products, or large-scale data infrastructure.
Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable modern data platforms.
Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Practical understanding of the tradeoffs involved in managing petabyte-scale data, including performance, cost, reliability, access controls, lineage, quality, and governance.
Experience collaborating directly with data practitioners and empathy for their workflows.
Strong technical judgment, clear communication, and ability to lead across teams.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate core data-platform capabilities, including data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence tooling, and data governance.
Build reliable Python services and developer-facing tools that improve how teams create and operate data products.
Develop scalable infrastructure as code with Terraform.
Establish patterns that enable teams to manage petabyte-scale data while maintaining governance, security, reliability, and usability.
Partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to translate their needs into durable platform capabilities.
Evaluate and build agentic workflows that improve data work while maintaining appropriate controls and observability.
Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.