Block
Principal Security Engineer
Bay Area, CA, United States of America · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$319k-$479kDetected 2 days ago
CybersecurityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Your mandate is to provide deep technical expertise and strategic direction to ensure that security is enabling fast, secure innovation across the business.
- Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the multi-year technical strategy for software security at Block, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring alignment with engineering best practices.
- Spearhead the security strategy and engineering excellence for mobile software and platforms across Block's product ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level.
- They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more.
- Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all.
- You will work across Engineering and Information Security (InfoSec) to champion a "Secure by Design" culture, directly influencing the architecture of Block's core products and infrastructure.
- Deliver world-class and innovative software solutions to security problems, tackling Block's top risks such as technology fragmentation and security after-the-fact.
- Drive engineering excellence, specifically around security, for critical systems like tokenization platforms, ensuring integrity, performance, and scalability.
- Partner with engineering leaders to integrate security practices early into the development lifecycle (Secure SDLC) and provide security architecture review and threat modeling for critical systems.
- Software Security Innovation: Deliver world-class and innovative software solutions to security problems, tackling Block's top risks such as technology fragmentation and security after-the-fact.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Track record of exemplary technical leadership and decision-making at a Principal or equivalent level (L8+ technical capabilities preferred).
- 10+ years of experience developing and shipping production software and critical services, with a minimum of 5 years focused on establishing and scaling security practices in a large, modern technology environment.
- Deep technical understanding of security vulnerabilities, risks, countermeasures, and compensating controls, particularly in high-volume, real-time transaction processing environments.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with proven ability to influence executive leadership and direct engineering teams in prioritizing security roadmap items to balance security and business risks.
- Demonstrable ability to write production-quality code/script for security automation and tooling.
- Experience leading and driving significant technical initiatives across multiple team, organizational and product boundaries.
- Experience in the financial technology, payments, or cryptocurrency/bitcoin domain, reflecting Block's unique security characteristics.
Compensation
- $319,000 - $478,600 USD
Benefits
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- 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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