Infrastructure Engineer

Block, Inc.
Palo Alto, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Palo Alto, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databases
Continuous Integration
Programming Tools
Distributed Systems
Github
PostgreSQL
Systems Integration
TypeScript
Caching
Backend
Event Driven Architecture
GraphQL
Graphite
Microservices

Job description

We're partnering with a high-growth tech company building the backbone of highly reliable, large-scale financial systems. Their Foundation team is responsible for ensuring core infrastructure stays fast, stable, and developer-friendly, especially under heavy production load.

This is a hands-on engineering role where your "customers" are other engineers. Your impact is measured by how much faster, safer, and smoother the entire engineering organisation can ship.

What you'll work on:

  • Designing and maintaining highly available, production-grade systems
  • Improving developer experience (CI/CD, builds, deploys, tooling, reliability)
  • Owning and evolving core infrastructure powering mission-critical workflows
  • Strengthening observability, monitoring, and incident response systems
  • Reducing system fragility and preventing production issues before they happen
  • Working closely with other engineers in a fast feedback, high ownership environment

Company Tech stack:

AWS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Graphite, Honeycomb, Temporal.io, GitHub Codespaces, and AI-driven developer tooling

Requirements

  • 1-4 years of SWE experience
  • Experience contributing to or owning core infrastructure or backend systems
  • Strong TypeScript skills + at least one backend language
  • Exposure to microservices, scaling systems, or event-driven architectures
  • Experience with AWS and PostgreSQL (or similar databases)
  • Familiarity with caching, integrations, or distributed systems concepts
  • Comfortable working in fast-moving, high-ownership environments

Remote-first, collaborative engineering culture with strong emphasis on reliability and developer productivity.

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