Senior Software Engineer, CI Infrastructure

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

Job Description

The CI Infrastructure team's mission is to make CI fast, reliable, and easy for all Block engineers. We design, implement, and manage solutions that enable our engineers to test and release their applications as efficiently as possible. We utilize cloud computing and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes and apply methodologies such as Continuous Deployment. Members of our team are directly responsible for developing the next generation of Block's software build platform.

Engineers on our team feel at home working in and around a broad range of technologies and understand the daily development work frictions our developers face. They enjoy building new systems from the ground up as much as they love tweaking existing systems to achieve maximum performance. They work with open source projects and tools as well as contributing back to it. Check out Block's full list of open source projects at https://square.github.io.

You Will: 

• Develop scalable solutions that improve our CI/CD platform.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce pain points in the development process.
• Contribute to monitoring, stability, and security of existing services.
• Build APIs and frameworks that allow engineers to access our systems and tooling.
• Communicate technical designs in writing and in person to multiple technical audiences.
• Participate in the team on-call rotation for issues with CI/CD systems.
• Work with world-class, experienced, and dedicated engineers.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience building CI/CD platforms by creating internal tooling and applying open-source solutions.
• A bachelor's degree or relevant technical experience.
• Experience working with and deploying applications in Linux containers.
• A solid experience with the Linux/Unix command line and tools.
• Experience and proficiency in at least one of Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, Go .
• Proficiency in unit and integration testing paradigms.
• A strong desire to continue learning.
• An eagerness to share your ideas, and openness to those of others. Quickly and easily articulate issues and what needs to be done to resolve them

Additional Information

Growth opportunities:

• Become a strength multiplier to product engineering efforts.

• Learn about every technology stack used at Square.

• Get to work at the intersection of the social and the technical, with growth opportunities in both.

Technologies we use:

• Primary languages: Ruby, Bash

• Secondary languages: Java, Go

• Operating Systems: Linux, macOS

• Configuration Management: Chef, Terraform

• Other: Ruby on Rails, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker

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, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other 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. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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 TBD54566975, 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. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.