Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security
Block
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $148,375–$207,665 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $178k for comparable roles.
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Block, Inc. (formerly Square) is a financial technology company operating the Square merchant payments ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, TIDAL music streaming, and Bitcoin-focused financial services. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments
Block currently has 43 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $217,800–$326,800 across 43 roles with salary data.
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Careers - Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Risk joins the SFS Risk Management team to scale vendor security, third-party risk, and business continuity through technical innovation. This role treats governance as a data problem, requiring the engineer to build data pipelines, integrations, and agentic AI workflows that transform manual processes into automated products for continuous monitoring and audit readiness. The candidate will translate compliance requirements into policy-as-code and develop systems to aggregate and normalize risk signals from various sources like source control and identity platforms. Key technologies include Python, Kotlin, Java, or Go, alongside LLM APIs, Claude, and frameworks like Model Context Protocol. The role also involves working with SQL, Snowflake, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and gRPC to solve complex problems regarding security, reliability, and automated evidence collection within a banking environment.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $219125 from 35 postings across 16 companies.
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