Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["CI/CD","Git","Monitoring","Observability","Incident management","Oncall","Automation","AI tooling","Root cause analysis","Rollback"]

Senior Site Reliability Engineer dedicated to improving the reliability of Block's platform and infrastructure. You’ll lead oncall, drive incident response and prevention, apply AI-driven tooling for observability, and implement safe deployment patterns across distributed systems, in a role focused on reducing toil and accelerating product velocity.

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Block
Block
5 months ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Site Reliability Engineer dedicated to improving the reliability of Block's platform and infrastructure. You’ll lead oncall, drive incident response and prevention, apply AI-driven tooling for observability, and implement safe deployment patterns across distributed systems, in a role focused on reducing toil and accelerating product velocity.
Location: New York
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.
  • •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.
  • •Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceRetirementEquityPaid LeaveRemote WorkLearning Budget

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.
  • •Strong incident management skills — structured triage, mitigation under pressure, blameless postmortems.
Experience:5+ yearsEnterprise softwareDistributed systemsOncallHigh availabilityObservability
Skills:CI/CDGitMonitoringObservabilityIncident managementOncallAutomationAI toolingRoot cause analysisRollback
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KotlinJavaHTTPJSONGRPCProtocol BuffersMySQLVitessDynamoDBEvent-driven architecturesDataDogLaunchDarklyTerraformKubernetesIstioEnvoyAWS

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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