Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Block

Bay Area, CA, United States
Zone a: usd $189,000 - usd $283,600; zone b: usd $...
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Improve system reliability
Ai-driven tooling for observability
Incident detection and response
** Block is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of its platform and infrastructure, with a focus on leveraging AI-driven tools for incident management and system improvements. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, particularly in backend development and incident management, along with a commitment to building scalable systems. **

Job Summary

  • As a member of the SRE team, you will proactively and reactively improve the reliability of Block's platform and critical infrastructure.
  • You will leverage and continuously improve AI-driven tooling and automation to enhance observability, accelerate incident detection and response, and reduce operational toil.
  • Full-time employee benefits include healthcare coverage, retirement plans with company match, employee stock purchase program, and wellness programs.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 75

** Block is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of its platform and infrastructure, with a focus on leveraging AI-driven tools for incident management and system improvements. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, particularly in backend development and incident management, along with a commitment to building scalable systems. **

Salary

Zone A: USD $189,000 - USD $283,600; Zone B: USD $179,600 - USD $269,400; Zone C: USD $170,100 - USD $255,100; Zone D: USD $160,700 - USD $241,100; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • improve system reliability
  • AI-driven tooling for observability
  • incident detection and response
  • lead incident command
  • progressive delivery and rollback automation
  • monitoring and observability expertise

Nice-to-have

  • systems-oriented mindset
  • autonomy and strong sense of accountability
  • boundless curiosity

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Experience running production oncall
  • Strong incident management skills
  • Fluency with CI/CD pipelines
  • Comfort with vendor/dependency management

Work Rights

Not specified

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