Senior Data Engineer, Product

Block

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$198,000–$297,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $130,500–$208,385 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $248k versus about $169k 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 50 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $207,900–$311,900 across 50 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer, Product

Careers - Senior Data Engineer, Product will join the product data engineering team to build and maintain a curated data foundation for Cash App, Square, Afterpay, and Tidal. This role involves handling data architecture, modeling, and pipeline tooling to transform raw event streams and transactional systems into reliable analytical assets across banking, lending, commerce, and AI domains. You will lead the creation of data models, own critical pipelines for money movement, and build monitoring for data quality and lineage. Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into automated end-to-end solutions and participating in on-call rotations. Required skills include high proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt, along with experience using Snowflake, Databricks, Github, Airflow, Prefect, Omni, and Terraform to support experimentation frameworks and ML-ready datasets.

What does a Data Engineer earn in California?

Median $187556 from 37 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Create and optimize data models for eventing, customer-level, and process-level data using AI-assisted tools.
  • Take technical ownership of critical data pipelines for customer datasets, money movements, and experimentation platforms.
  • Build monitoring systems to assess data quality and lineage while developing AI agents for automated issue resolution.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to monitor daily execution, diagnose issues, and fix business-critical pipelines.
  • Translate business requirements from non-technical partners into applicable data requirements and automated end-to-end solutions.
  • Transform raw event streams and transactional systems into governed, tested, and reliable analytical assets.
  • Deliver metrics and ML-ready datasets to support product growth across banking, lending, and commerce domains.

What we're looking for

  • A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
  • High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt.
  • Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions across the entire project lifecycle.
  • Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect.
  • Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling.
  • Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring.
  • Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation.

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