Security Engineer, Network Edge Security

Block

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Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $217,800–$326,800 / yr
Posted: 10 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $147,200–$214,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $272k versus about $181k 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 41 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,800–$326,800 across 40 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Security Engineer, Network Edge Security

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Careers - Security Engineer - Network Edge Security joins the Network Edge Security team to enhance API security posture and traffic trustworthiness. You will build infrastructure to inventory network edge security, maintain near-real-time streaming analytics data pipelines, and develop AI-driven capabilities to mitigate abusive traffic patterns. Daily responsibilities include responding to emerging threats using WAF rules and bot vendors, managing systems across build and production, and contributing to machine learning model development. The role requires proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript, alongside experience with SQL, Spark, AWS, and CDNs like Cloudflare and Fastly. You will solve complex problems regarding network protocols, behavior, and authentication systems to provide immediate relief against threat actors while monitoring the effectiveness of security solutions across various downstream products and services.

What does a Security Engineer earn in California?

Median $200125 from 42 postings across 15 companies.

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Skills

Java Kotlin Python TypeScript SQL Spark PySpark AWS Cloudflare Fastly Snowflake Databricks Kafka Datadog Terraform MySQL DynamoDB WAF CDN

What you'll do

Mitigate emerging threats at the network edge using WAF rules, bot vendors, and CDN-native technologies.
Build infrastructure to provide a comprehensive inventory of the network edge security posture.
Build and maintain a near-real-time streaming analytics data pipeline and application.
Contribute to the development and evolution of labeling and machine learning models.
Manage and maintain systems across build, deploy, and production monitoring environments.
Develop and implement AI-driven capabilities to automatically classify and mitigate abusive traffic patterns.
Evaluate and build integrations with third-party vendor systems to supplement in-house solutions.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software or security engineering experience developing scalable production software incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Typescript, and Python.
Proficiency in data analysis using SQL and Spark.
Experience implementing and maintaining applications in both a CDN (Cloudflare and Fastly) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystems.
Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, and Datadog (preferred).
Significant experience with bot/fraud identification and mitigation systems (preferred).