Senior Software Engineer, PubSub

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

The PubSub team is responsible for providing the asynchronous task processing infrastructure so that Cash App can scale. The suite of offerings PubSub currently provides includes Eventing (Kafka), Job Queues (SQS), real time updates to clients (NATS), and kPow! (UI for Kafka). The PubSub team is also responsible for creating, upgrading, and maintaining the infrastructure of their product offerings, as well as enabling governed access to their data across business units. PubSub customers are product and engineering teams at Cash App and Block.

We are looking for a strong independent engineer to join the PubSub team.

Qualifications

You will:

• Design, build, and support infrastructure projects that provide critical support for tremendous processing requirements and distributed system pattern libraries to customers
• Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, add some new ones
• Use a data-driven approach to make the call on new infrastructure or product offerings that might need to be added
• Work with bleeding edge cloud technologies

You have:

• At least 5+ years of experience developing production software, with a strong preference for Platform (and PubSub) experience
• Advanced Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent experience in lieu of degree
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (eg. AWS, GCP)
• Passion for building, operating, and debugging distributed systems at scale
• Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability
• Experience overseeing customized development for multiple projects
• Experience envisioning a technical approach/solution, socialize it and align partners towards it
• Experience balancing urgency to implement vs technically correct solution
• Additional bonus if you have prior experience with Kafka

Technologies we use and teach:

• Go, Kotlin
• Kafka
• AWS Services (SQS, MSK, ECR, more)
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Service Mesh
• DataDog
• MySQL, Guice, Dynamo

Additional Information

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.

Zone A: USD $167,300 - USD $204,500
Zone B: USD $158,900 - USD $194,300
Zone C: USD $150,600 - USD $184,000
Zone D: USD $142,200 - USD $173,800

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. 

Full-time employee benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Retirement Plans including company match 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
• Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees) 
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits 
• Additional Perks suc