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
The Bot Intelligence team builds the tools that provide important insights to the trustworthiness of traffic flowing into our systems. Our capabilities use machine learning, serverless, streaming analytics capabilities and data analysis to build a platform that provides powerful insights into understanding the true sources of our request flows. The team is small, providing for the nimbleness and flexibility needed to stay ahead of threat actors.
You have a passion for the problem space - needing to understand a significant range of knowledge around Content Distribution Networks, analytical tools, network protocols and behavior, authentication and authorization systems. You will work with many teams across the organization both engineering and operational to gain the insights required to understand the problem space as well as monitor the effectiveness of our solutions.
You Will:
- Build and maintain a near real-time streaming analytics application built on an array of AWS technologies including but not limited to lambda functions, managed apache flink, and vendor solutions.
- Help manage and maintain our systems across build, deploy, and production monitoring,
- Computer languages as we use Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PySpark and others as needed or appropriate.
- Evaluate and build integrations with vendor systems that may be used in addition to in-house solutions.
Experience with bot/fraud identification and mitigation systems is a strong plus.
Qualifications
You Have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience developing scalable production software incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient in Java, Javascript, Typescript, and Python.
- Proficient in data analysis using SQL and Spark
- Experience implementing and maintaining applications in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem built on Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and other systems
Technologies We Use
- Java, JavaScript, Python
- Snowflake, MySQL, DynamoDB, Databricks
- AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Managed Apache Flink, Kinesis Streams, DynamoDB, Firehose)
- Confluent Kafka
- Datadog, Terraform
Qualifications
You Have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience developing scalable production software incorporating testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient in Java, Javascript, Typescript, and Python.
- Proficient in data analysis using SQL and Spark
- Experience implementing and maintaining applications in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem built on Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and other systems
Technologies We Use
- Java, JavaScript, Python
- Snowflake, MySQL, DynamoDB, Databricks
- AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Managed Apache Flink, Kinesis Streams, DynamoDB, Firehose)
- Confluent Kafka
- Datadog, Terraform
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
Across our ecosystem, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most employees can join Block in an office location, from home, or with a mix of both. We create work spaces and experiences that help individuals and teams to be their most creative and collaborative.
