Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity 

The pipeline team is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to bolster our efforts to accommodate the rapid expansion of our workload. Flock is continuing to expand to more customers and with that comes more footage. For Flock to keep momentum, we need to keep the pipeline latency low and handle the scale of footage ingestion as well as build new features that support the business. This role will require a background check due to access to criminal justice information.

The Skillset 

• Love writing code and have extensive experience doing so

• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.

• Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services

• Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale – We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time.

• Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis (use the right tool for the job)

• Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker

• Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams 

• Proven experience leading teams from a technical perspective

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Senior Software Engineer at Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Understand current processes and procedures

• Work on small tasks for the sprint with support

• Work towards understanding how the pipeline at Flock works

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain context on how they leverage the pipeline

• Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc

The First 60 Days 

• Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options of solutions instead of “what should I do?”

• High-level understanding of the features we are working on

• Understand the software design philosophies being used

• Be comfortable navigating through the code base

• Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input

• To-do: Add decent-sized feature

90 Days & Beyond 

• Able to explain each of the pipeline services’ purpose

• Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency

• Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity