Block

Senior Data Engineer, Risk

Bay Area, CA, United States of America · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$198k-$297kDetected 1 day ago

PythonGitSQLSnowflakeDatabricksTerraformMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringAgentic AICollaboration

About the role

As a Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding.
You will enable other compliance and risk teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products.
Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders.

This role will support compliance or risk product data engineering teams.
We partner with product, engineering, compliance, and legal teams to support risk detection, reporting, instrumentation, and ML-ready datasets across critical domains including identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes.
Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation.
Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and on top build AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution.
Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation
Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling
empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time.
Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
or 8 years and a Master's degree
High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt
Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect, as well as
Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring
Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation

Check out our other benefits at Block.
Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.

We work globally with partners in business, engineering, counsel, and product to provide a safe user experience for our customers while minimizing and potentially eliminating bad activity on our platform.
The Risk Product Data Engineering team at Block builds reliable data foundations that help protect customers across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay.
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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.

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