Summary

Offensive Security team emulates attackers to find vulnerabilities throughout Block, and inform remediation. We surface issues and offer technical expertise, without mandating deadlines. We don't throw security problems over the wall. We understand the struggle of our engineers and provide contextual guidance for a diverse, complex and cutting edge tech stack. We collaborate with our partners at every opportunity we can find and enable principled risk taking.

Block's Offensive Security Team is looking for a 

 Senior Security Engineer. As a key leader on the team, you'll proactively identify critical areas to improve, leveraging your expertise to safeguard our systems and uphold customer trust. Your work will shape our security posture, keep us ahead of emerging threats, and secure the financial systems of tomorrow.

You Will

1. Perform security assessments: Lead security design reviews, conduct penetration tests, source code reviews and improve security architecture.
2. Create exploits for red team operations.
3. Fix security issues: Commit small PRs to directly fix security issues.
4. Lead security initiatives and strategy: Identify and drive critical security initiatives such as the GenAI security. Guide the technical direction of the team to ensure team's success.
5. Mentor and lift: Mentor junior team members and lift the skills of the entire team.

You Have

1. Penetration testing skills: You are an expert in penetration testing and have spent a decade or more honing your skills. You are fond of chaining bugs and creating real world exploits.
2. Appsec and Cloudsec expertise: You have an extensive demonstrable expertise in appsec and cloudsec.
3. Engineering skills: You are proficient in at least one programming language (Python, Java, Go, Ruby, Node,) and infrastructure as code. You don't hesitate to automate tasks, write tools and fix security vulns through code contributions.
4. Leadership mindset: You assume responsibility for large projects while driving collaboration with multiple stakeholders. You are a known security expert and represent your team at technical forums and present at executive levels.

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.

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. 

Zone A:

$217,800—$326,800 USD

Zone B:

$207,000—$310,400 USD

Zone C:

$196,100—$294,100 USD

Zone D:

$185,200—$277,800 USD

Skills

• Development
• Java
• Leadership
• Python
• Software Engineering