This role pays more than
87%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,000–$214,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$225k
versus about
$182k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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
53 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,800–$326,800
across 52 roles with salary data.
Careers - Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform joins the team to build and own the data platform enabling internal teams to work with trusted data at scale. This role focuses on designing and operating core capabilities including data warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence tooling, and governance. The engineer will develop reliable Python services, developer-facing tools, and scalable infrastructure as code using Terraform to manage petabyte-scale data while ensuring security and reliability. Key responsibilities include establishing technical patterns, mentoring others, and building agentic workflows. The role requires proficiency in Python, Kotlin, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Apache Airflow, dbt, Prefect, Buildkite, DataHub, Anomalo, Looker, Omni, and AWS. This position solves the complex problem of making data discovery, production, transformation, and governance faster and safer for internal data practitioners across the organization.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
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PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
Kafka
Flink
Spark
Delta Lake
Distributed Systems
CDC
Data Lake
Caching Systems
Database Sharding
Proxy Architecture
Real-time Streaming
Data Ingestion
Kubernetes
EC2
WarpStream