Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Block
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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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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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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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