Tech Stack

Description

As a Senior SRE at Block, you'll improve the reliability of critical infrastructure by building distributed platforms, leveraging AI-driven tooling for observability and incident response. You'll lead incident command during high-severity events and drive reliability improvements across the company.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience running production oncall for high-availability systems
• Strong incident management skills — structured triage, mitigation under pressure, blameless postmortems
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollout strategies, and rollback automation
• Monitoring observability expertise — building/tuning alerts for uptime, error rates, latency regression, and resource exhaustion

Responsibilities

• Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability
• Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations
• Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization of sev 0–1 incidents
• Design and implement safe deployment patterns (progressive delivery, automated rollback, guardrails)
• Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis