Senior Data Engineer, Risk

Block
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 168,300 - 297,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaboration"]

Design and optimize data architecture, modeling, and pipeline tooling to support Block’s Compliance and Risk data engineering teams. Build and standardize metric definitions, data dictionaries, and documentation while ensuring data quality and lineage via monitoring. Deliver ML-ready datasets for domains like identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes. Participate in on-call operations and use AI-driven automation to reduce false positives and resolve pipeline issues efficiently.

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Senior Data Engineer, Risk

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Job Summary

Design and optimize data architecture, modeling, and pipeline tooling to support Block’s Compliance and Risk data engineering teams. Build and standardize metric definitions, data dictionaries, and documentation while ensuring data quality and lineage via monitoring. Deliver ML-ready datasets for domains like identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes. Participate in on-call operations and use AI-driven automation to reduce false positives and resolve pipeline issues efficiently.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead creation and optimization of data models using AI code generation for eventing, customer, and process-level data.
  • •Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated datasets and maintain data dictionaries and related documentation.
  • •Build monitoring for data quality and lineage, and develop AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution.
  • •Participate in on-call rotation: monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business-critical pipelines to meet SLAs.
  • •Partner with non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into data requirements and deliver automated end-to-end solutions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,300 - 297,000 annually
Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceRetirement SavingsFlexible Time

Key Requirements

  • •Minimum 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
  • •High proficiency in SQL, Python, and dbt.
  • •Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions end-to-end (scoping through documentation).
  • •Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking (e.g., Airflow or Prefect).
  • •Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling, plus data quality and data lineage monitoring.
Experience:10+ yearsRiskComplianceFinancial services
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLPythonDbtSnowflakeDatabricksGitHubAirflowPrefectOmniTerraform

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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