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Senior Data Engineer, Product

Block

Bay Area, CA · US - OK - Remote · Remote · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Remote
Location
Bay Area, CA · US - OK - Remote

About the role

  • As a Data Engineer at Block, you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding.
  • You will enable a range of other engineering and business teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of large and unique datasets spanning multiple products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creation and optimization of data models across eventing, customer-level, and process-level data, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.
  • Take shared or independent technical ownership of critical data pipelines across Block — including foundational customer datasets, money transfer and movement pipelines, and the data infrastructure powering Block's experimentation platform.
  • Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and further, build AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution.
  • 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 business requirements into applicable data requirements, and develop automated end-to-end solutions.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
  • High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt
  • Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation
  • Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect
  • Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling
  • Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring
  • Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation

Benefits

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

Workplace

  • Distributed team since day one

Skills

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Dbt
  • Airflow
  • Prefect
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • GitHub
  • Omni
  • Terraform

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