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