Senior Continuous Integration Site Reliability Engineer, Block
$156.4-225k
Salary is dependent on location. Plus equity
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$156.4-225k
Salary is dependent on location. Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of industry experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting large scale infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, Ruby
- Strong system/network debugging skills
- Strong experience with building and deploying solutions to the Cloud (AWS)
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, network, and application-level security
- Experience with management/automation tools such as Chef/Ansible/SALT
- Consistent track record of coordinating or leading large cross-team technical projects
- Past experience with CI systems such as Jenkins
Desirable
- Experience working in a technical lead capacity
- Experience with BuildKite
- Experience working with containerization technologies like Kubernets/ Docker
- Application development using Ruby on Rails
What the job involves
- Build scalable infrastructure to manage CI systems (both on-prem and AWS) and applications
- Minimize risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance
- Drive improvement projects and handle incidents in an effective and organized manner
- Collaborate across multiple teams including IT Support, Production Platform Engineering, Hardware Engineering, and Devices Software Engineering
- Build automation tools to detect and remediate system health, and prevent those issues from reoccurring
- Build automation to help with capacity planning to scale our on-prem and CI AWS infrastructure
- Perform periodic on-call duty to handle availability and efficiency of the continuous integration infrastructure
- Provide support to internal stakeholders with a customer oriented mindset and develop automation solutions to improve customer experience and usage of CI systems
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
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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