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Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform
Block INC · 🇺🇸 New York, NY, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Block INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles5 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in NY: $265k–$311k, median $275k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Block builds simple, powerful tools that make progress towards an economy that’s truly open to all. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone. Join us. The Role Product Platform Engineering builds and unifies the foundational systems Block engineers use to create, ship, and operate products. Within Product Platform Engineering, the Data Stores team builds the database and storage platforms that help engineering teams manage data safely, reliably, and efficiently. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in databases and a generalist mindset. You will build new database platform capabilities, improve the systems engineers depend on every day, and work across backend services, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. This is a software engineering role for someone who enjoys going deep on database problems without being limited to one technical domain. You will ask good questions, make sound technical bets, and use AI as a native part of how you explore, build, test, and learn You Will • Design, build, and operate database and storage platform software that helps Block engineers build reliable products. • Build services, APIs, and developer tools that automate database provisioning, schema changes, data migrations, upgrades, and other lifecycle operations. • Solve database scaling and performance problems while protecting data correctness, durability, and availability. • Work across database behavior, application code, distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure to understand problems and deliver pragmatic solutions. • Partner with engineering teams on schema design, query patterns, and platform adoption, turning recurring challenges into reusable capabilities. • Help unify and modernize existing data store platforms, reducing operational toil and making safe practices the default. • Lead technical projects from problem framing through implementation, testing, rollout, and operational ownership, including on-call participation and incident response. • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between performance, reliability, cost, maintainability, and developer experience. • Use AI tools to accelerate development and system understanding, while applying careful review, testing, and engineering judgment. • Contribute to a culture that values curiosity, direct communication, early ownership, and learning through shipping. You Have • A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience. • Experience building and operating backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems, with meaningful experience working with relational databases in production. • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across unfamiliar systems, codebases, and technical domains. • A practical understanding of database concepts such as transactions, indexing, replication, schema evolution, and query performance. • Experience in one or more areas such as database infrastructure, distributed storage, online migrations, cloud services, Kubernetes, observability, or developer tooling. You do not need prior experience with every technology we use. • A track record of turning ambiguous technical problems into clea