Careers - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block

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New York, New York, US Posted 47 days ago $189,000–$283,600 / year

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TL;DR

Join Block's SRE team as a senior member responsible for enhancing the reliability of critical infrastructure through proactive and reactive measures. You will build and extend platforms to improve system reliability, standardize tools across multiple organizations, and lead incident command during high-severity events. Utilizing AI-driven tooling, you will enhance observability and automate operational workflows while maintaining oncall responsibilities for Tier 0 services. Essential skills include experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring & observability, and familiarity with technologies like Kotlin, gRPC, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. This role aims to drive system-wide reliability improvements, reducing customer-visible incidents and enhancing product velocity across the organization.

Skills

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Istio Event driven architectures CI/CD DataDog LaunchDarkly Java Kotlin gRPC Protocol Buffers MySQL Vitess DynamoDB HTTP JSON

What you'll do

Build and extend platforms to enhance system reliability.
Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations.
Lead incident command and coordinate stabilization during high-severity events.
Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection and accelerate root cause analysis.
Design safe deployment patterns including progressive delivery and automated rollback.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software development experience in backend/platform roles.
Proven technical initiative and leadership on previous projects.
Experience with AI-driven tooling for observability and incident analysis.
Strong background in running production oncall for high-availability systems.
Expertise in monitoring, alert tuning, and root cause analysis.
Incident management skills including structured triage and blameless postmortems.
Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollouts, and rollback automation.

Market check

Salary context

This $189,000–$283,600 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$119,800–$199,750

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$137,000–$200,075

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 $180,000–$270,000 across 42 roles with salary data.

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