Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$189,000–$283,600 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k
This role $236k
$126k most similar roles pay here $300k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $147,158–$212,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,800–$326,800 across 52 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the SRE team, you will proactively and reactively improve the reliability of Block's platform and critical infrastructure. You will build and extend platforms to enhance system reliability, standardize tools across multiple organizations, and design safe deployment patterns like automated rollbacks and guardrails. Your daily work involves triaging high-severity incidents, leading incident command, and utilizing AI-driven tooling for observability, alert tuning, and reducing operational toil. The role requires expertise in Kotlin, Modern Java, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, MySQL, Vitess, DynamoDB, and event-driven architectures. You will also utilize DataDog, LaunchDarkly, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, and Amazon Web Services. This position focuses on transitioning the organization from reactive incident handling to repeatable, system-wide reliability gains for high-availability systems while ensuring faster response times and higher product velocity across the company's distributed platforms.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and extend platforms to improve overall system reliability for the company.
  • Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and internal organizations.
  • Triage, coordinate, and lead the stabilization of high-severity (Sev 0–1) incidents.
  • Serve as primary oncall for critical services while managing structured escalation paths.
  • Implement AI-driven tooling to improve signal detection and accelerate root cause analysis.
  • Design and implement safe deployment patterns including progressive delivery and automated rollbacks.
  • Develop shared operational tools and deploy-safety patterns across the platform.

What we're looking for

  • You must have at least 5 years of software development experience.
  • You must have experience running production oncall for high-availability systems.
  • You must possess strong incident management skills, including structured triage and mitigation under pressure.
  • You must be proficient in monitoring and observability to build and tune alerts for system health.
  • You must be fluent with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollout strategies, and rollback automation.
  • You should have familiarity with AI-driven tooling for observability, incident analysis, or automation (preferred).
  • You should have a mindset that naturally reaches for AI to accelerate problem-solving and reduce toil (preferred).

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