Job Description

We provide a set of fully managed databases as a platform, used to persist data for all of Cash App. Our platform, running on AWS, automates operating a constantly growing number of databases and database systems like DynamoDB, AWS Aurora, and TiDB. We are responsible for a wide variety of data and access patterns, ranging from mission-critical payment data to high volume user event and sensor data, requiring us to gain deep expertise in a variety of database systems.

Our teams are remote first and globally distributed. You will have high levels of autonomy and curiosity.

As a member of the Cloud Database engineering team, you'll collaborate with our stakeholders - including product engineers - to:

• Design, build, and own infrastructure projects that provide critical support for operating database systems at scale
• Build the platform that provides self-serve provisioning, scaling, and management of database systems like DynamoDB, AWS Aurora, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, and TiDB.
• Build and operate continuous integration and chaos testing for our platform
• Spread database best-practices across the organization, while mentoring and inspiring fellow engineers

You'll also have the chance to explore and contribute to bleeding edge open source technologies that will form the future of Cash App's cloud storage platform, like TiDB, Temporal.io, and ChaosMesh.

Qualifications

You are a self-motivated, curious engineer who wants to work with stateful distributed systems at scale. Automating chores is second nature. An afternoon spent tracking down an obscure kernel bug is your idea of a good time. You can jump up and down the cloud platform stack at will. The fact that you'll be jumping head first into a massive, distributed cloud platform excites you.

Skills you’ll bring:

• A curiosity for highly available systems at scale
• Technical initiative and a desire to make those around you better
• Experience with incident response, including disaster recovery
• Proficient in Go or a mainstream scripting language
• At least one of:

• Experience operating Data Storage at scale with one or more of the following databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and TiDB
• Proficient with container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

Technologies we use and teach:

MySQL, DynamoDB, TiDB, Amazon RDS, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, and Kotlin. We don’t expect candidates to have experience in all of these technologies.

Cash App spends much of its time using these tools, but we're committed to working on the right tech for the job. As a senior member of the team, we look forward to having your expertise guide us into the future.

Additional Information

Cash App treats all employees and job applicants equally. Every decision is based on merit, qualifications, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with each office’s corresponding local guidelines.

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, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.