Job Description

The Core Infrastructure group - composed of the Compute, Observability, and Traffic teams - provide foundational infrastructure for Cash engineers to run their services on top of Cash’s cloud platform. Our platform and infrastructure enable services to scale and communicate securely, while enabling our users to effectively observe, debug, and monitor their applications. We’re a distributed team of infrastructure engineers spread across North America, and we work with other infrastructure engineers and product engineers who rely on the systems that you would be building.

As a member of the Core Infrastructure group, you’ll collaborate with our stakeholders to:

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure that provide critical support for fast moving and fast evolving business needs
• Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: automation, provisioning, scaling, connectivity, security, monitoring, testing, etc.
• Use a data-driven approach to make the call on any new infrastructure that might need to be added, whether it’s off-the-shelf or built in-house
• Architect distributed, real-time systems for high scalability and reliability

Qualifications

YOU HAVE:

• Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership
• A passion for building, operating, and debugging distributed systems at scale
• Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability
• A strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer, and mentor other engineers
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)

AT LEAST ONE OF:

• Experience designing and operating large-scale production systems
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with service mesh deployments (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, ElasticSearch)

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE AND TEACH:

• Go, Java, Kotlin
• Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm
• Datadog, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Prometheus, Sentry
• Fastly, Gloo Mesh, Istio, Envoy
• AWS

Additional Information

We’re 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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. _WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING TO BUILD A WORKPLACE THAT IS FAIR AND SQUARE? CHECK OUT OUR I+D PAGE. _

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.