Senior Corporate Security Engineer

Block 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 Role
We are looking for a Senior Corporate Security Engineer who will support Block's foundational teams (People, Finance, Legal, IT). To be successful, we need someone who can quickly digest new concepts, business requirements, and associated risks and can collaborate with their partner teams and with the security team to identify what risks we should accept, which we should mitigate, how, and why. This means broad security knowledge, an ability to gain technical depth quickly when necessary, and the soft skills (collaboration, ability to communicate security risks to non-engineers) and leadership required to effectively collaborate across many teams at once.
The Corporate Security team at Block is responsible for enabling foundational teams such as Finance, Corporate Engineering, Counsel and People to execute on their initiatives without compromising security. We do this by operating Block's enterprise identity platforms, workforce security solutions, and providing architectural guidance to our partner teams to help them build secure services.
You Will

• Work directly with foundational teams to identify and manage risk across Block's corporate technology platforms
• Operate and evolve our workforce identity and security tooling
• Assist in the development of security policies, requirements, and guidelines to address corporate risk
• Provide architecture guidance to influence secure designs and roadmaps for effective risk management
• Build, develop and maintain new security solutions to protect Block

You Have

• Experience with security engineering across a broad range of security domain areas including identity and access management, network security, endpoint security and PKI
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Bash, Powershell, Golang, Java etc)
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code using languages such as Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Experience mentoring or leading a team of engineers will be highly valued

Ideally You Have

• Experience working in a remote and distributed team environment
• Curiosity and interest in learning new technologies
• Previous experience with enterprise SaaS tools (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Workday, Salesforce etc

We'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 identity or other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business as part of this role.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.