Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Company: Square Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: September 3, 2024

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

• Full-timeBlock 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 Privacy Engineering team was formed to build tools and provide guidance for engineering teams to collect, store, and analyze data responsibly. Security and privacy are closely linked, but where security focuses on the meta level of protecting data and assets as a whole, privacy zooms in to focus on the type of information collected, stored, and used, and how that information may violate expectations or breach trust. Privacy Engineering provides technology and abstraction layers to enable the employees at Block to do their job while being customer-centric and minimizing risks to the individual.As a Senior Software Engineer on the team at Block, you will build internal products and infrastructure to protect Block's customers' privacy and collaborate with many teams across Block, including product engineering teams, privacy counsel, and teams within security and platform engineering. You will be fully remote and report to the Data & Machine Learning Platform Engineering Manager. #LI-RemoteYou Will:
  • Design and develop services or infrastructure that support data privacy initiatives and consumer's 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 our team's existing engineering solutionsYou Have:
    • 6+ 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 goalsEven Better:
      • 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 conceptsWe use and teach:
        • JavaBlock 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 $198,000 - USD $297,000Zone B: USD $188,100 - USD $282,100Zone C: USD $178,200 - USD $267,400Zone D: USD $168,300 - USD $252,500Full-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 benefitsWe'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.Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Because the material duties of this role involve direct or indirect access to sensitive personal or financial data, a criminal background check is required following a contingent offer of employment.
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Keywords: Square Inc., San Francisco , Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California