[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Data Enablement

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Data Enablement team. The role involves building platforms and frameworks for data movement and serving, specifically focusing on online data projections and event-streaming capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Become the subject-matter expert for Block's online data projections and event-streaming capabilities — designing the platform, frameworks, and standards others build on
• Lead the technical direction for real-time, event-driven data systems used by business units across Block
• Build and operate streaming pipelines and projection frameworks on high-volume event data
• Partner with engineering teams across Block to turn Kafka event streams into reliable, low-latency data products
• Improve the reliability, observability, and data quality of streaming systems running in production
• Mentor engineers on the team and shape platform architecture and standards
• Contribute to and grow familiar with the team's other domains over time — supporting our third-party data proxy backend applications, graph data store capabilities, and offline batch data projections

Skills

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience (or Block equivalent, as referenced in go/levels)
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed, high-throughput backend systems in production
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Proficiency in a JVM language such as Kotlin, or a comparable backend or systems programming background
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
• A track record of leading technical projects and mentoring other engineers
• Experience building streaming or real-time data systems; hands-on experience with Spark Structured Streaming or Flink is strongly preferred
• Bonus points for a data engineering background (building data pipelines, lakehouse or warehouse modeling, or large-scale batch and streaming systems)

Benefits

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retirement savings plans
• Modern family planning
• Check out our other benefits at Block.

Company Overview

Block is a technology company with a focus on financial services. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://block.xyz.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Block has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 51 in 2026, 257 in 2025, 253 in 2024, 260 in 2023, 297 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.