Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Risk

Block

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$180,000–$270,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $225k
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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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About Block

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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TL;DR · Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Risk

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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What you'll do

  • Own and operationalize the third-party risk management and business continuity programs for Square Financial Services.
  • Define technical approaches and frame solutions for ambiguous, cross-team problem spaces in early-stage programs.
  • Build and operate data pipelines to aggregate and normalize risk, control, and asset signals from multiple systems of record.
  • Translate compliance requirements into "policy-as-code" by creating enforceable, testable rules that run continuously.
  • Design agentic AI workflows using LLM reasoning and deterministic layers for evidence analysis and control monitoring.
  • Automate evidence collection and continuous control monitoring to replace manual, point-in-time audit preparations.
  • Identify and convert manual processes from partner teams into automated products.
  • Participate in technical design discussions regarding the security and reliability of the internal platform.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in third-party risk management and business continuity.
  • 4+ years of experience building production software in backend, platform, data, or software engineering.
  • Multi-year ownership of a production system including on-call, SLOs, and maintenance work.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Python, Kotlin, Java, or Go.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, including prompting, tool use, and agents.
  • Experience with integration patterns such as REST APIs, webhooks, authentication flows, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience pulling, normalizing, and joining data from multiple imperfect sources.
  • Working knowledge of security or compliance frameworks like PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST (preferred).

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