<p>It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.<br><br>Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.</p><strong>The Role</strong><p>As a Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding. You will enable other compliance and risk teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products. This role will support compliance or risk product data engineering teams.</p><p>The<em><strong> Compliance Data Engineering team</strong></em> at Block supports the detection  and reporting of suspicious 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.</p><p>The<em><strong> Risk Product Data Engineering team</strong></em> at Block builds reliable data foundations that help protect customers across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We partner with product, engineering, compliance, and legal teams to support risk detection, reporting, instrumentation, and ML-ready datasets across critical domains including identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes.</p><strong>You Will</strong><ul><li>Lead the creation and optimization of existing data models through AI code generation on eventing, customer level, and process level data.</li><li>Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation.</li><li>Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and on top build AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution. </li><li>Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders. Automate this process through AI agents to focus human effort on highest priority tasks.</li><li>Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate business requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions.</li></ul><strong>You Have</strong><ul><li>A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.</li><li>High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt</li><li>Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation</li><li>Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect, as well as </li><li>Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling</li><li>Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring</li><li>Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation</li></ul><strong>Technologies We Use and Teach</strong><ul><li>Snowflake</li><li>Databricks</li><li>Dbt</li><li>Github</li><li>Airflow</li><li>Prefect</li><li>Omni</li><li>Terraform</li></ul><p> </p><p>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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.<br><br>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. <strong>Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our</strong> I+D page.</p><p>While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.</p> <p> 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.  </p><p>Zone A:: $198,000 USD - $297,000 USD</p><p>Zone B: : $188,100 USD - $282,100 USD</p><p>Zone C:: $178,200 USD - $267,400 USD</p><p>Zone D:: $168,300 USD - $252,500 USD</p> <p><strong>Application Guidelines</strong></p><p>Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.</p><p><strong>Use of AI in Our Hiring Process</strong></p><p>We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. </p><p>Contact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions.</p><p><em>Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. </em><em>Check out our other benefits at Block.</em></p><p><em>Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. <strong>Square</strong> makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. <strong>Cash App</strong> is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. <strong>Afterpay</strong> is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. <strong>TIDAL</strong> is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. <strong>Bitkey</strong> is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. <strong>Proto</strong> is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.</em></p><p>Privacy Policy</p>