Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

What you'll do

• Design and develop infrastructure to support data privacy initiatives across the engineering ecosystem.
• Build internal products and tools to protect customer privacy rights.
• Define the technological roadmap for privacy at Block.
• Provide mentorship and code reviews for teams utilizing privacy technologies.
• Monitor and maintain the stability of existing privacy engineering solutions.
• Develop systems that implement privacy-enhancing technologies and data governance requirements.
• Create technical abstractions to help engineers manage data responsibly while minimizing risk.

What we're looking for

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience writing quality, scalable, robust, and testable code.
• Interest in learning new technologies or languages.
• Experience cutting across services, infrastructure, or frameworks to achieve security and privacy goals.
• Experience designing novel yet robust security or privacy architectures (preferred).
• Experience developing or maintaining services or processes to meet data governance needs (preferred).
• Experience designing novel ways to understand and surface data flow, access control, and risk (preferred).
• Experience explaining complex technical security or privacy concepts (preferred).