Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

The Role

The Privacy Engineering team was formed to build tools and provide guidance for engineering teams to collect, store, and analyze data responsibly. Privacy Engineering provides technology and abstraction layers to enable employees at Block to do their job while being customer-centric and minimizing risks to the individual.

As a Software Engineer on the team, you will build internal products and infrastructure to protect Block’s customers’ privacy and collaborate with product engineering teams, privacy counsel, and teams within security and platform engineering. You will be fully remote and report to the Data Foundations Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services or infrastructure that support data privacy initiatives and consumer privacy rights across Block’s engineering ecosystem
• Help define the technological future of privacy at Block
• Collaborate with other engineering teams incorporating privacy engineering products into their engineered solutions
• Provide mentorship and reviews for engineering teams working with privacy technologies
• Contribute to the monitoring and stability of the team’s existing engineering solutions

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience
• Experience writing quality scalable, robust, and testable code
• Interest in learning new technologies or languages
• Experience cutting across services, infrastructure, or frameworks in novel ways to achieve security and privacy goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing novel yet robust security or privacy architectures
• Experience developing or maintaining services or processes to meet data governance needs
• Experience designing novel ways to understand and surface data flow, access control, and risk
• Experience explaining complex technical security or privacy concepts

Tech Stack (Used and Taught)

• Languages: Java, Kotlin
• Technologies: Linux, Terraform, AWS, MySQL

Application Guidelines

• Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period.
• Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.