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Block · 2 months ago

Staff/Principal Software Engineer, CI Infrastructure

Bay Area, CA, United States of America

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$264K/yr - $395K/yr

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment, and they are seeking a Staff/Principal Software Engineer for their Continuous Integration Infrastructure team. This role involves designing and managing CI infrastructure, improving developer experience, and collaborating with various teams to optimize services and workflows.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Partner closely with Block Engineering colleagues to define our roadmap

Contribute to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring and supporting fellow engineers

Build scalable and reliable infrastructure to support our mission critical CI services, artifact storage and supporting services

Own the CI services and artifact storage end to end and provide strategic direction for these, championing improvement projects

Collaborate across multiple teams, including Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, and Security providing technical guidance and solutions to teams with varying levels of infrastructure knowledge

Build automation for dynamic capacity planning and resource optimization to balance performance and cost efficiency across our AWS infrastructure

Consolidate diverse CI platforms into a single unified CI experience that standardises interfaces and tooling for end-users

Qualification

CI infrastructure designAWS infrastructureContainer technologiesSoftware engineering GoSoftware engineering KotlinSoftware engineering JavaSoftware engineering RubySoftware engineering PythonAutomation for capacity planningArtifact storage managementSecurity systems designMentoring engineersLearning new technologiesCollaboration across teamsProblem-solving

Required

Multiple years of experience at Staff or Principal-level scope and impact across multiple teams

Deep experience architecting and operating large-scale CI or build systems in production

Deep understanding of containers and related technologies

An affinity for designing and implementing secure systems with a focus on supply chain security

Strong software engineering skills in one or more of Go, Kotlin, Java, Ruby, or Python and Bash/shell scripting

Natural curiosity to learn new technologies, solve interesting problems and build quality software

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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