Senior Software Engineer, Data Enablement

What this role involves

Block's Data Enablement team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build streaming data platforms and frameworks. The role involves leading technical direction for event-driven systems, building streaming pipelines on Kafka, and mentoring engineers. Requires 8+ years of experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and JVM languages like Kotlin.

Skills this posting asks for

• kafka
• spark
• spark structured streaming
• flink
• kotlin
• aws
• iceberg
• databricks
• snowflake
• dbt
• prefect
• datahub
• cloudevents
• jvm
• event-driven architecture
• streaming
• real-time data systems
• distributed systems
• cloud infrastructure

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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 corpora…