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).
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: Public cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure Infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, Cloud Formation Observability - Datadog, Sumo Logic, 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.
We want you to be well and thrive.
Our global benefits package includes: 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.
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