Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy Engineering

St. Louis, MO, United States

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Block

Block is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and our foundational teams.

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Company Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Privacy Engineering team at Square, you will build internal products and infrastructure to protect Square’s customers’ privacy. In this role, you will closely collaborate with many teams across Square, including product engineering teams, privacy counsel, and teams within security and/or platform engineering. 

You will:

  • Design and develop services or infrastructure that support data privacy initiatives and consumer’s privacy rights across Square’s engineering ecosystem
  • Help define the technological future of privacy at Square
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams incorporating privacy engineering products into their engineered solutions
  • Provide mentorship and reviews for engineering teams working with privacy technologies
  • Contribute to the monitoring and stability of our team’s existing engineering solutions

Examples of our work:

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • A high bar for writing quality scalable, robust, and testable code
  • Experience with Privacy Engineering
  • Willingness to learn new technologies or languages
  • Ability to cut across services, infrastructure, or frameworks in novel ways to achieve security and privacy goals
  • A desire to perform and grow technically as an engineer or engineering leader
  • Strong communication skills

As a bonus, you may have experience or interest in:

  • Designing novel yet robust security or privacy architectures
  • Data inventory, catalog, discovery, lineage and/or classification systems at scale
  • Developing or maintaining services or processes to meet data governance needs
  • Designing novel ways to understand and surface data flow, access control, and risk

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $222,800 - USD $272,300
Zone B: USD $211,600 - USD $258,600
Zone C: USD $200,500 - USD $245,100
Zone D: USD $189,400 - USD $231,400

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Benefits include the following:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • Retirement Plans including company match 
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
  • Paid parental and caregiving leave
  • Paid time off
  • Learning and Development resources
  • Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
  • Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources 

This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

Tags: Banking Blockchain C Crypto Finance Governance Monitoring Privacy

Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Health care Insurance Parental leave Salary bonus Signing bonus Wellness

Region: North America
Country: United States
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