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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in software security strategy, system design, and architecture, with a strong focus on security engineering excellence and collaboration across teams. Proven ability to lead high-priority security initiatives and influence technical decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
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Technical LeadershipSecurity Engineering ExcellenceSystem Design and ArchitectureSecure SDLC IntegrationSecurity Automation and Tooling
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Hard Skills
Software DevelopmentSecurity VulnerabilitiesRisk ManagementCountermeasuresProduction-Quality CodeSecurity PracticesTechnical Decision MakingSystem DesignArchitectureSecurity Automation
Soft Skills
CollaborationCommunicationInfluencing LeadershipMentoringKnowledge Sharing
Industry Keywords
Financial TechnologyPaymentsCryptocurrencyReal-Time Transaction ProcessingSecurity Reliability Engineering
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesSDLC
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Deliver innovative software solutions to security problems and address Block's top risks
- Define the multi-year technical strategy for software security at Block
- Guide architectural decisions and align with engineering best practices
- Lead common, high-leverage security solutions and infrastructure across Square, Cash App, TBD, and other business units
- Drive security engineering excellence for tokenization platforms, including integrity, performance, and scalability
- Spearhead security strategy and engineering excellence for mobile software and platforms
- Champion security reliability engineering practices to improve resilience and availability
- Lead technical planning and implementation for high-priority security initiatives
- Act as a technical decision maker/tie-breaker and uphold high technical standards
- Partner with engineering leaders on Secure SDLC integration, security architecture reviews, and threat modeling
- Mentor InfoSec engineers on technical execution, system design, and technology choices
- Drive knowledge sharing and documentation
Requirements
What you’ll need- Track record of exemplary technical leadership and decision-making at a Principal or equivalent level (L8+ technical capabilities preferred)
- 10+ years of experience developing and shipping production software and critical services
- Minimum of 5 years focused on establishing and scaling security practices in a large, modern technology environment
- Mastery of system design and architecture
- Demonstrable experience solving ambiguous, domain-heavy problems
- Deep technical understanding of security vulnerabilities, risks, countermeasures, and compensating controls
- Experience in high-volume, real-time transaction processing environments
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to influence executive leadership and direct engineering teams in prioritizing security roadmap items
- Ability to write production-quality code/script for security automation and tooling
- Experience leading significant technical initiatives across multiple team, organizational, and product boundaries (preferred)
- Experience in financial technology, payments, or cryptocurrency/bitcoin (preferred)
- Experience improving engineering standards and practices for security (preferred)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process