Traffic Engineer - Product Platform Engineering

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

Block’s Product Platform Engineering organisation is responsible for the build, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of the company’s cloud infrastructure across the Square, Cash App, and Afterpay products. Our work enables product developers to focus on building new product features leveraging our highly available infrastructure platform. It is our objective to ensure product development teams can provision new services to the platform quickly, easily and safely.

This role is with the Traffic Engineering team who are responsible for the secure design, implementation, maintenance and scaling of service meshes across multiple products. We also help enable connectivity across the wider Block group.

Being based in Australia will give you particular proximity to internal Afterpay customers as well as other product and platform teams across the wider organisation (Block, Square, Cash App).

• You are familiar with Kubernetes as well as Cloud and networking concepts.
• You can explain the difference between an AWS NLB or an ALB.
• If you are familiar with Istio or service meshes in general that is a plus.
• Our expectation is to configure everything with code - mostly terraform, and occasionally bash/python.

Qualifications

Required skills & experience:

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience in (AWS preferred)

• You’re most at home in the shell on linux-based systems

• Proficiency in foundational tools like git, docker, bash, terraform

• Software development experience (we use Go, Python, and occasional Bash)

• Familiarity with container orchestration - Kubernetes, EKS/GKE

Ideally you have expertise in some of the following areas:

• Service Meshes - Istio (preferred), Envoy, Linkerd

• Public cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure

• Infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, CloudFormation

• Observability - Datadog, SumoLogic, New Relic, Prometheus

• Scalable CI/CD toolchains - Buildkite, Github, Docker registries

Additional Information

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, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any 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.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

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.

Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business as part of this role