Data Engineer

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.

As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in implementing, improving, and maintaining Block’s Looker and Tableau implementations. This includes partnering and consulting with business and analytics teams to provide guidance and assistance in creating and streamlining Looker and Tableau reports.  This also includes creating production quality ETLs and or automated Python scripts using orchestration platforms such as Airflow and or Prefect.  As part of the Automated Reporting Tools team, you’ll help develop and lead trainings to communicate reporting and data architecture best practices, and you’ll co-host office hours to provide direct assistance.  Your expertise and enthusiasm will inspire people across Block to adopt and innovate their Looker and Tableau reporting!

You will:

• Become a subject matter expert on Looker and Tableau, both as development platforms and visualization tools
• Design and develop scalable turn-key ETL pipelines 
• Partner with product analysts, data scientists, engineers, business users, and others to understand their needs and come up with an end-to-end solution
• Translate business requirements to actionable data solutions (English SQL)
• Hold office hours, training sessions, brown bags and more to evangelize Looker, Tableau, and ETL best practices throughout the company

• 5+ years building and supporting reporting data systems built on columnar oriented RDBMS systems (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, etc.)
• Strong experience in visualization technologies including Tableau, Looker and/or another BI tool
• Strong experience building data pipelines  (e.g. Event streams, Flat Files, RDBMS, REST APIs, SFTP, etc.) to support analytical workloads
• Knowledge of at least one mature programming language (Ruby (and Rails), Python, Java, Go, or similar)
• Experience with cloud based data tools and services (e.g. AWS Lambda/S3/Transfer, GCP Cloud Functions/GCS, Fivetran, etc.)
• Strong technical accomplishments in SQL and data analysis skills
• Strong business intuition and ability to understand complex business systems

Preferred:

• Prior Looker or Tableau experience
• Prior Airflow or Prefect experience
• Experience with Linux/OSX command line, version control software (git), and general software development
• Experience leveraging APIs to automated tasks
• Teaching/training/consulting experience

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Canada locations are categorized into one of two 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.

Zone A: CAD $114,500 - CAD $171,700
Zone B: CAD $110,500 - CAD $165,700

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource.

We have listed some of our common hiring locations. Depending on the cost of labor in the relevant geographic area, state work locations that are approximately 50 Kilometers outside of the metro area listed may be aligned to a different zone. These zones may be modified in the future.  Please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• 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. 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.