Role overview

Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security

Requirements and responsibilities

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You Will

  • Architect and evolve cloud security guardrails. Design and implement SCPs, GCP org policies, and IAM controls that shape how Block uses cloud infrastructure for years to come.
  • Build automation to discover, measure, and contextualize security issues. Develop integrations with CSPM/DSPM tools and internal platforms to surface and prioritize findings.
  • Own the cloud security exception lifecycle. Build and maintain the tooling and processes that allow teams to request, review, and track security exceptions at scale
  • Partner with platform teams to deliver solutions that permanently eliminate entire categories of cloud security risk.
  • Deliver key cloud security assurance functions. Balance the need to remediate critical misconfigurations and sensitive data exposures with being responsible stewards of our developers' time.
  • Develop risk-based prioritization. Build data pipelines and dashboards that aggregate security signals and help leadership understand posture trends.
  • Respond to and triage cloud security alerts. Support on-call rotations, investigate findings, and help engineers resolve issues quickly.
  • Produce quality software that stands the test of time and scales across Block's multi-cloud footprint.
  • Think, build and iterate in an AI-augmented environment.

You Have

  • 5+ years of experience as a software or security engineer
  • 4+ years of experience securing infrastructure running on AWS and/or GCP at scale.
  • Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code. Terraform (including securing Terraform pipelines), SCPs, GCP org policies, and understanding of best practices and pitfalls when deploying guardrails at organizational scale.
  • Experience with cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools such as Wiz, and familiarity with DSPM concepts (sensitive data discovery, classification, and remediation).
  • Strong understanding of IAM. AWS IAM policies, roles, SCPs, permission boundaries; GCP IAM, service accounts, and org-level constraints.
  • Experience maturing the cloud security posture of large, complex, multi-account/multi-project environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver complex, multi-faceted projects from concept to launch.
  • Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools) in real production work

Bonus If You Have

  • Experience with Kubernetes security (pod security policies, network policies) in environments like EKS or GKE.
  • Familiarity with BI and data exploration tools like Looker and Snowflake for building security metrics and dashboards.
  • Experience building or operating security exception/risk acceptance workflows at scale.
  • Familiarity with cloud networking and network segmentation strategies.
  • Ability to work well cross-functionally and communicate with audiences who may not have a security or engineering background.
  • Experience supporting multi-business-unit organizations with varying compliance and regulatory requirements.
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Focus10404 Engineering - Information SecurityRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackAWS, GCP, KubernetesPrimary skills
Location27 accepted countriesEligibility

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