Block
Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform
$185K–$327K
Bay Area, CA, United States of America +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Bay Area, CA, United States of America
US - CA - Oakland - Experience
- Minimum 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years with a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or Master’s degree under the stated experience alternative; equivalent work experience accepted.
About the job
Builds and operates database and storage platform software, services, and tools that help Block engineering teams manage data reliably and develop products.
What you'll do
- Build services, APIs, and developer tools for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, upgrades, and other lifecycle operations.
- Address database scaling and performance while protecting correctness, durability, and availability; modernize data store platforms.
- Lead technical projects through implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership, including on-call and incident response.
What they ask for
- Production experience building and operating backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including meaningful experience with relational databases.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and practical knowledge of transactions, indexing, replication, schema evolution, and query performance.
- Experience in one or more areas such as database infrastructure, distributed storage, online migrations, cloud services, Kubernetes, observability, or developer tooling.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into solutions, debug production systems, and communicate technical tradeoffs across teams.
Pay
$217,800 — $326,800 USD (base salary); $207,000 — $310,400 USD (base salary); $196,100 — $294,100 USD (base salary); $185,200 — $277,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
MySQL, AWS Aurora, Vitess, DynamoDB, Redis and ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, Go
AI focus
Use AI tools to explore, build, test, learn, accelerate development, and understand systems, with careful review, testing, and engineering judgment.
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