Block
SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer
“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Block. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, AI-driven tooling, Automation, Observability. Improve platform reliability. Improve infrastructure reliability”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable safe product development; Enhance observability; Accelerate incident detection; Accelerate incident response; Reduce operational toil
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Problem-solving
Participate in primary platform oncall, Work outside of normal business hours
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of software development experience, Drive to root cause systems, Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership, Familiarity with AI-driven tooling, Mindset that naturally reaches for AI, Experience running production oncall, Incident management skills, Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, Progressive rollout strategies, Rollback automation, Monitoring & observability expertise, Ability to create and maintain evidence-based maturity assessments, Comfort with vendor/dependency management, Boundless curiosity, Autonomy, Sense of accountability, Desire to perform and grow as an engineer
Nice to Have
AI to accelerate problem-solving, Reduce toil
What You'll Do.
Improve platform reliability
Improve infrastructure reliability
Build and extend platforms
Improve system reliability
Standardize reliability tools
Lead stabilization of incidents
Serve as primary oncall
Maintain structured escalation paths
Exercise leadership escalation
Drive platform-wide reliability improvements
Drive shared operational tooling
Drive deploy-safety patterns
Use AI-driven systems
Improve signal detection
Accelerate root cause analysis
Design safe deployment patterns
Implement safe deployment patterns
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work across business groups; Work around the globe; Span time zones; Coordinate mitigation; Drive effective escalation
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