Engineering Manager, Event Streaming

The Team
Block (Foundational)
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.
The Role
All of Block's product services are organized into business units with their own product and engineering teams. These teams publish events and analytics that power real time interactions, personalization, and insights. The Event Streaming platform team designs and delivers the tools and systems that enable these capabilities. The broader organization that this team sits within enables all business units at Block to build Data Products, and this team's focus is to unlock the power of Event Streams as a critical component and interface for those products.
Our Event Streaming team connects Square, Cash App, and other business units through reusable data infrastructure to publish data at streaming speed. Our platform makes it easy to not only stream data, but to sink that data to actionable downstream destinations including data warehouses, analytics platforms, and marketing tools. We partner closely with application developers, data science and machine learning engineers, analysts, and product managers to understand their use cases and educate them on how our platform can unlock innovation. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to continue our mission of Unified Eventing at Block - guiding a strong team of engineers to both simplify and expand eventing capabilities, unlocking huge cross-team impact for our company.
You Will

• Lead and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical innovation, and operational excellence.
• Develop a deep understanding of the developer experience, advocating for improvements to tools, processes, and infrastructure to enhance productivity and satisfaction.
• Proactively identify and document feature gaps, researching, designing, and implementing solutions to improve our data systems.
• Drive team focus on operational excellence, ensuring SLAs are met with internal stakeholders, and maintaining the health and performance of data pipelines.
• Develop and manage execution against a clear roadmap, aligned with company objectives with measurable and demonstrable outcomes.
• Consolidate a suite of eventing solutions at Block, providing a scalable "Golden Path" solution that enables teams to publish event streams as owned and governed data products.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, providing guidance on best practices, conducting code reviews, and leveraging your experience to help grow their skills and capabilitie

You Have

• 2+ years experience managing and leading engineering teams.
• 5+ years background in data streaming or backend software development, with expertise in both areas being highly desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a track record of working effectively with internal customers to drive alignment and deliver results.
• Hands-on experience with distributed log systems, such as Apache Kafka and AWS Kinesis.
• Experience with schema registries which employ data serialization protocols including Avro and Protobuf
• Ability to understand and advocate for the developer experience, identifying opportunities for improvement in tools, processes, and infrastructure.
• Proficiency in at least one of Java or Go, including writing backend services and data processin

Technologies We Use and Teach

• AWS, GCP
• Kafka, Flink, Spark
• SQL, Java, Go
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terrafor

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 also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
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. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
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.
Zone A:
$207,900 - $311,900 USD
Zone B:
$197,500 - $296,300 USD
Zone C:
$187,100 - $280,700 USD
Zone D:
$176,700 - $265,100 USD
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.