Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Block is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build platform systems that help Block engineers ship software with more confidence and speed. The role requires experience in building, operating, or improving backend or infrastructure systems used by engineering teams, strong software engineering fundamentals, and the ability to work across unfamiliar systems, codebases, and technical domains. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience.

Requirements

• Design, build, and operate platform systems
• Work across areas such as deployment orchestration, CI/CD, Kubernetes, event streaming, databases, internal developer platforms, and reliability tooling
• Partner with engineering teams to understand their workflows, identify platform gaps, and deliver pragmatic solutions
• Use AI tools to accelerate development, improve system understanding, prototype ideas, and raise the quality of engineering output
• Lead technical projects from problem framing through implementation, rollout, and operational ownership
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, reliability, maintainability, and long-term platform direction

Benefits

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retirement savings plans
• Modern family planning