Block
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-29, Skillenai has indexed 38 Block job postings over the past 90 days. Block appeared in 149 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-29
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Hiring at Block
Weekly Block job postings — last 90 days
Roles Block is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 13 | 34.2% |
| Security Engineer | 4 | 10.5% |
| iOS Engineer | 3 | 7.9% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 2 | 5.3% |
| Product Manager | 2 | 5.3% |
| Product Test Engineer | 2 | 5.3% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 2 | 5.3% |
| Android Software Engineer | 1 | 2.6% |
| Business Systems Analyst | 1 | 2.6% |
| Compliance Technology Program Lead | 1 | 2.6% |
Skills in Block job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 13 | 34.2% |
| SQL | 11 | 28.9% |
| Kotlin | 11 | 28.9% |
| Protocol Buffers | 11 | 28.9% |
| Java | 9 | 23.7% |
| CI/CD | 7 | 18.4% |
| JSON | 7 | 18.4% |
| MySQL | 6 | 15.8% |
| Swift | 6 | 15.8% |
| SwiftUI | 6 | 15.8% |
| AWS | 6 | 15.8% |
| Terraform | 6 | 15.8% |
| Objective-C | 6 | 15.8% |
| Combine | 5 | 13.2% |
| Swift Concurrency | 5 | 13.2% |
Where Block is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bay Point | 11 | 28.9% |
| New York City | 3 | 7.9% |
| Qianhai Bay Area | 2 | 5.3% |
| Toronto | 2 | 5.3% |
| Melbourne | 1 | 2.6% |
| San Francisco | 1 | 2.6% |
| Seattle | 1 | 2.6% |
Who works at Block
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- snowflake14%
- sql10%
- Ember.js10%
- AWS10%
- DynamoDB10%
- Salesforce10%
- Tableau7%
- Java7%
- card network7%
- PHP7%
- dashboards7%
- MYSQL7%
- Cash App7%
- Protobufs7%
- Rails7%
- workflows7%
Share of observed positions at Block that list the skill.
Degree level
- Bachelor9
- Associate3
- Master2
- PhD2
- High School1
- Other Professional1
Field of study
- Global Studies, Communication1
- Mathematics1
- Mathematics and Computer Science1
- Software Engineering1
- Statistics1
- Arts1
- Business1
- Business Administration and Management, General1
Schools
- Georgia Institute of Technology3
- University of Washington3
- University of Toronto2
- University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist College of Business1
- Penn State University1
- Washington and Lee University1
- The Ohio State University1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
Block in the news
149 news articles and 238 blog posts mentioned Block in the last 90 days.
News
- AI News Brief Roundup: 2026-10-29 Morningai-news-brief.info · October 29, 2026
- Agentic AI Foundation expands with four new projectstheworldofai.org · October 27, 2026
- Is Anthropic the best business in the world?bensbites.com · October 27, 2026
- Announcing The Full BRXND NYC 2026 Lineupnewsletter.brxnd.ai · October 27, 2026
- Block runs its coding-agent fleet from Slack. The chat is the easy part.cicd.deployment.to · June 19, 2026
- Musk says SpaceX borrowed $40B for AI chips; OpenAI cuts model pricesimplicator.ai · October 26, 2026
Blogs
- Another Daily AI Newsletter - October 24anothercodingblog.com · October 24, 2026
- No Linus Torvalds, you are not just using a new and interesting toolunixdigest.com · October 15, 2026
- Block’s Dessa Learned to Talk From Speech Alone and Runs on a MacBook Pro, but Access Is Waitlist Onlyaimagazine.blog · October 25, 2026
- Kimi Now, Weights Later - 2026-10-24highlearningrate.substack.com · October 24, 2026
- Databricks Test Automation for Apps & AI | testRigortestrigor.com · October 13, 2026
- From Stranded Power to AI Infrastructure: Spotlight on Gridlessharvardtechnologyreview.com · October 21, 2026
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Block over the 90 days ending 2026-10-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
- company_id
- a166e1b87be627ba
- data_as_of
- 2026-10-29
- window_days
- 90
- profiles_as_of
- 2026-10-24