Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block
Melbourne
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Kotlin","Java","HTTP","JSON","GRPC","Protocol Buffers","MySQL","Vitess","DynamoDB","Event driven architectures","DataDog","LaunchDarkly","Terraform","Kubernetes","Istio","Envoy","AWS"]

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Block focusing on improving reliability of platform and critical infrastructure using AI-driven tooling, leading oncall incidents (Tier 0) and building scalable, observable systems with progressive deployment, rollback, and safety patterns.

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Block
Block
3 months ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Block focusing on improving reliability of platform and critical infrastructure using AI-driven tooling, leading oncall incidents (Tier 0) and building scalable, observable systems with progressive deployment, rollback, and safety patterns.
Location: Melbourne
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability.
  • •Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations.
  • •Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization of sev 0–1 incidents.
  • •Serve as primary oncall, maintaining structured escalation paths and leadership escalation.
  • •Drive platform-wide reliability improvements and deploy-safety patterns.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceRetirement Savings

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software development experience
  • •Experience running production oncall for high-availability systems
  • •Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollout strategies, and rollback automation
  • •Monitoring & observability expertise—building/tuning alerts for uptime, error rates, latency regression, and resource exhaustion
  • •Demonstrated initiative and leadership on backend/platform projects
Experience:5+ yearsFintechPaymentsSoftware engineering
Skills:KotlinJavaHTTPJSONGRPCProtocol BuffersMySQLVitessDynamoDBEvent driven architecturesDataDogLaunchDarklyTerraformKubernetesIstioEnvoyAWS
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KotlinModern Java (11+)HTTPJSONGRPCProtocol BuffersMySQLVitessDynamoDBEvent driven architecturesDataDogLaunchDarklyTerraformKubernetesIstio/EnvoyAmazon Web Services

Company Brief

Block
Builds financial services and commerce tools to empower businesses and individuals, operating products such as Square, Cash App, Spiral (Bitcoin initiatives), TIDAL, and developer-focused payment and banking solutions.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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