Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform

Block is one company built from many blocks all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams People Finance Counsel Hardware Information Security Platform Infrastructure Engineering and more provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies forecast finances give legal counsel safeguard systems nurture new initiatives and more. Every challenge creates possibilities and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

Product Platform Engineering builds and unifies the foundational systems Block engineers use to create ship and operate products. We work across platform domains such as deployment systems event streaming databases workflows and the operational systems that keep Block moving.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is broad curious and energized by solving platform problems that cut across teams. You will help design and build the next generation of Blocks internal platforms improve the systems engineers depend on every day and use AI as a native part of how you explore build test and learn. This is a role for someone who wants to ask good questions make sound technical bets and turn complex problems into working systems.

You Will

• Design build and operate platform systems that help Block engineers ship software with more confidence and speed.
• 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.
• Help unify and modernize existing platforms while creating new ones where the business needs a stronger foundation.
• 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.
• Contribute to an engineering culture that values curiosity direct communication early ownership and learning through shipping.

You Have

• A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 3 years and a Masters degree; or equivalent work experience.
• Experience 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.
• Experience in one or more platform areas such as deployment systems CI/CD Kubernetes Kafka or event streaming Temporal databases observability service infrastructure or developer tooling.
• A track record of turning ambiguous technical problems into clear plans and working solutions.
• Comfort partnering with engineers and technical leaders across teams to understand needs explain tradeoffs and drive decisions.
• Interest in using AI as part of your engineering workflow and helping others learn how to apply it well.
• Curiosity judgment and willingness to ask questions early so the team can move with clarity.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kubernetes service infrastructure deployment orchestration CI/CD systems Kafka and event streaming databases observability tooling internal developer platforms Go Java Ruby and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Were working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team and always assess candidates on an individualized believe in being fair and are committed to an inclusive interview experience including providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation let your recruiter know. Want to learn more about what were doing to build an inclusive workplace Check out our Inclusion & Diversity page.