Summary

The Role

The Compliance Engineering & Technology (CET) team at Block finds and reports financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We work globally with partners in business, engineering, counsel, and product to provide a safe user experience for our customers while minimizing and potentially eliminating bad activity on our platform.

You will work remotely and report to the CET - Business Intelligence Data Engineering Manager. As a Business Intelligence Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding. You will help other compliance teams to make impactful decisions by laying the foundation for analyzing our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products.

You Will

1. Work with engineering and product teams to design, develop, and manage scalable ETL pipelines to unblock new product launches.
2. Create brand new and optimize existing data models and schemas on top of Block data including but not limited to eventing, customer level, and process level data.
3. Build monitoring to assess the health of the team’s infrastructure and data quality and lineage.
4. Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions.
5. Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation.
6. Teach and encourage others to self-serve by building tools that make it simpler and faster for them to do so.

You Have

1. Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience
2. High proficiency in SQL
3. High proficiency in Python
4. Proficiency in data visualization tools like Looker or Tableau
5. Experience setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring
6. Experience with financial crimes compliance systems, technologies, and processes is a big plus

Technologies We Use and Teach

1. Snowflake
2. Databricks
3. Github
4. Airflow
5. Prefect
6. Looker
7. Tableau

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.

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. 

Zone A:

$180,000—$270,000 USD

Zone B:

$171,000—$256,600 USD

Zone C:

$162,000—$243,000 USD

Zone D:

$153,000—$229,600 USD

Skills

• Development
• Python
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• Team Collaboration