Security Engineer, Block

$156.4-225k

Salary is dependent on location. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

iOS

Android

Kotlin

Terraform

MySQL

Guice

Hibernate

JSON

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Financial services ecosystem

Job no longer available

Financial services ecosystem

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BPaymentsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

$156.4-225k

Salary is dependent on location. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

iOS

Android

Kotlin

Terraform

MySQL

Guice

Hibernate

JSON

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BPaymentsFinancial Services

Company mission

To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A strong motivation to contribute to a meaningful product that will fundamentally change the way people interact with financial institutions
You enjoy solving problems at scale, through hands-on problem solving
Strong desire to perform and grow as a security engineer and educate other engineers
Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership
Enthusiastic about distributed workforces and effective at working asynchronously
An interest in working on a product that impacts people/businesses directly
You have an aptitude for security and strong software engineering fundamentals

What the job involves

The product security engineering team focuses on protecting Cash App’s customer data throughout the product engineering’s technology stacks
We are a hands-on, engineering-driven security team, which aligns security engineers toward product teams, across the entire Cash App organization
We continually raise the overall trust of Cash App’s products by building high leverage security abstractions into the technology stacks our partners utilize
We collaborate on building these security infrastructures, design patterns, and guidelines
We accomplish our goals by treating security engineering as a discipline, offering our expertise to technical and non-technical stakeholders
We secondarily abstract bespoke security solutions into reusable infrastructure, sharing our learnings, best practices, and solutions across the organization
Our mission is to empower Cash engineers to protect our customers’ data in every aspect of the product and data life cycle; by providing reusable primitives and scalable platforms
As a Product Security Engineer, you’ll work within the product engineering organization to:
Co-design, co-build, and co-own the security and privacy mechanisms and features which support the internal engineering teams and customer operations
Design, apply, and develop security primitives to protect data
Help identify and remedied potential security risks to our customers' data
Understand how to apply and advise product teams on security requirements to the product’s implementation and how specific regulatory data privacy considerations may be relevant
Drive the direction of the organization by productizing common security patterns and working toward our security roadmap
Help the engineers around you level-up on their own security reasoning and knowledge

Our take

Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.

The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.

Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (4.1)

Company

Company benefits

Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
Retirement Plans including company match
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
Paid parental and caregiving leave
Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
Learning and Development resources
Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Jack Dorsey

(CEO)

Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.

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