Careers - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block

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Bay Area, California, US Posted 47 days ago $189,000–$283,600 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Block’s dedicated team, you will enhance the reliability of critical infrastructure and platforms by leveraging AI-driven tooling to improve observability and incident response. Your daily tasks include triaging high-severity incidents, leading on-call rotations for Tier 0 services, and implementing safe deployment patterns such as progressive delivery and automated rollbacks. You will also standardize reliability tools across various platforms and organizations while driving platform-wide improvements in operational efficiency. Ideal candidates have experience with AI-driven observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, and event-driven architectures, along with a strong background in monitoring and incident management. This role focuses on transforming Block’s approach to system reliability, aiming for fewer customer-visible incidents and higher product velocity through proactive measures and automation.

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 during high-severity events, coordinating mitigation efforts.
  • 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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