Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
Block (Square) · Bay Area, CA, United States of America
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform** **About the Role** Build and own the data platform that helps teams across the company work with trusted data at scale. Shape foundations for data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Combine strong software engineering with hands-on experience working with data, building platforms that make it safer and faster for data practitioners to discover, produce, transform, govern, and use data. **Key Responsibilities** • Design, build, and operate core data-platform capabilities including data warehousing, orchestration, BI tooling, and data governance • Build reliable Python services and developer-facing tools for data product creation and operation • Develop scalable infrastructure as code with Terraform • Establish patterns for managing petabyte-scale data with strong governance, security, reliability, and usability • Partner with data engineers, analysts, scientists, and product teams to build platform capabilities • Evaluate and build agentic workflows while maintaining controls and observability • Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor engineers **Required Experience** • Senior-level software engineering with strong Python skills and production systems experience • Hands-on experience building or operating data platforms or large-scale data infrastructure • Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable modern data platforms • Terraform and infrastructure-as-code expertise • Understanding of petabyte-scale data tradeoffs: performance, cost, reliability, access controls, lineage, quality, governance • Direct collaboration experience with data practitioners • Strong technical judgment, clear communication, and cross-team leadership **Tech Stack** Python, Kotlin • Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg • Apache Airflow, dbt, Prefect • Terraform, Buildkite, GitOps • DataHub, Anomalo • Looker, Omni • AWS **Compensation (U.S.)** Zone A: $217,800–$326,800 | Zone B: $207,000–$310,400 | Zone C: $196,100–$294,100 | Zone D: $185,200–$277,800
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