Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security
Block
Full-timeIn person
Posted
Jun 6, 2026
Closes
Sep 4, 2026
Job Description
Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security at Block
Skills & Competencies
Skills relevant to this opportunity
- Complex incident response — lead investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery on owned incidents.
- Adversary-simulation findings (red-team, pentest) — translate into detection and prevention improvements.
- Security-tool selection and deployment — own a category (EDR, SIEM, CSPM) end-to-end.
- Risk assessments and threat models for new systems — produce credibly with engineering teams.
- Detection engineering at scale — design and tune across a comprehensive rule set.
- On-call leadership — manage the SOC rotation, training, and escalation across a quarter.