Block
Senior Data Engineer, Product
$168K–$297K
Bay Area, CA, United States of America +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Bay Area, CA, United States of America
US - CA - Cash - SF - 2101 Mission - Experience
- 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree; or a Master’s degree for the stated 8-year alternative; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and maintain product data models, pipelines, quality monitoring, and AI-enabled automation that support analytics, experimentation, and product decisions across Block.
What you'll do
- Create and optimize data models and own critical data pipelines, including customer, money movement, and experimentation data.
- Build data quality and lineage monitoring, and use AI agents to reduce false positives, resolve issues, and automate pipeline operations.
- Partner with product and business teams to translate needs into data requirements and deliver automated solutions.
What they ask for
- High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt.
- Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and managing projects through the full lifecycle.
- Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect.
- Experience in schema design, dimensional data modeling, data quality and lineage monitoring, and AI-driven decisions or agentic automation.
Pay
$198,000 — $297,000 USD (base salary); $188,100 — $282,100 USD (base salary); $178,200 — $267,400 USD (base salary); $168,300 — $252,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, Dbt, Airflow, Prefect, Snowflake, Databricks, Terraform
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools and build AI agents for data-quality false-positive reduction, automated issue resolution, and pipeline operations.
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