About the Company
Block, Inc. is a technology company focused on increasing access to the global economy. Its brands include Cash App, Square, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, each serving different needs across financial services, commerce, music, and bitcoin technology.
Cash App began in 2013 as a peer-to-peer payments product and has grown into a financial platform serving more than 50 million monthly active customers. Its products help people send, spend, invest, borrow, and save money. Block operates with teams across global office and remote locations, emphasizing innovation, collaboration, and accessibility.
About the Role
Cash App is seeking a Data Engineer to join Block's Product Data Engineering team. This team builds and maintains the curated data foundation supporting Block's product lines, including Cash App, Square, Afterpay, and TIDAL. It transforms raw event streams, transactional systems, and operational data into reliable, governed, and tested analytical assets.
In this role, you will work across data architecture, modeling, pipeline development, monitoring, and dashboarding. You will take ownership of critical data pipelines and foundational datasets, support the infrastructure behind Block's experimentation platform, and help engineering and business teams make informed decisions. The role also involves using AI-assisted development tools and automated agents to improve data quality monitoring, pipeline reliability, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Design and optimize data models across event-level, customer-level, and process-level datasets, using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.
Take shared or independent technical ownership of critical data pipelines, including foundational customer datasets, money transfer and movement pipelines, and experimentation platform infrastructure.
Build monitoring systems to assess data quality and data lineage.
Develop AI agents to reduce false-positive alerts and support automated issue resolution.
Participate in the on-call rotation, monitor daily pipeline execution, diagnose and document issues, and resolve business-critical pipeline failures to meet service-level agreements (SLAs).
Automate pipeline monitoring and issue resolution through AI agents, prioritizing human effort on the most critical tasks.
Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders and product teams to understand business needs and translate them into data requirements.
Develop automated, end-to-end data solutions that support product development, analytics, experimentation, and business decision-making.
Required Qualifications
At least 10 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, eight years with a master's degree, or equivalent experience.
High proficiency in SQL, Python, and dbt.
Experience designing medium-to-large-scale data engineering solutions.
Experience managing the full project lifecycle, including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation.
Experience with ETL scheduling and orchestration technologies that support dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect.
Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling.
Experience implementing data quality and data lineage monitoring.
Experience applying data-driven decision-making through AI and agentic automation.
Ability to translate business requirements into reliable data solutions and collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
Technology Stack
Snowflake
Databricks
dbt
GitHub
Airflow
Prefect
Omni
Terraform
Salary & Benefits
Block uses a market-based compensation approach, with pay determined by relevant skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. U.S. locations are grouped into four compensation zones.
Zone A: $198,000–$297,000 USD
Zone B: $188,100–$282,100 USD
Zone C: $178,200–$267,400 USD
Zone D: $168,300–$252,500 USD The benefits package includes remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning benefits.
Equal Opportunity / EEO
Block is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates employees and applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with applicable state and local laws and fair-chance ordinances.
Block is committed to an inclusive interview process and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be shared with recruiters and will be treated as confidentially as possible.
Use of AI in Hiring
Block may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools are subject to applicable local regulations, including bias audits, and personal data is handled in accordance with state and local privacy laws.