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 $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B 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 Device SRE team is responsible for the automation of software build, release, deployment, and monitoring for the Devices team. We are expanding our capacity to automate software builds and releases to accommodate demand from our quickly growing portfolio of IoT devices, as well as migrating most of our existing Jenkins workflows to GitHub Actions. If you have a systems-oriented mindset, a passion for build automation, and an appreciation for the unique challenges of IoT software build toolchains, we’d love to hear from you!

The Skillset

• Embedded Software & Systems Engineering: Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS), firmware development, embedded Linux, or Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

• Programming Proficiency: Strong coding skills in Python, C, C++, or other scripting and low-level languages; understanding of common data structures and algorithms.

• Software Development Workflows: Expertise in build automation, continuous integration (CI), test automation, and tools like Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gradle, Bazel, Make, Ninja.

• Device Telemetry & Monitoring: Experience with logging, metrics collection, and fault diagnosis on embedded or distributed systems.

• Databases & Logging: Familiarity with SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL, or time-series databases (Prometheus, DataDog) for telemetry and analytics.

• Data Processing & Visualization: Experience with data ingestion pipelines, modeling, and storage, along with tools like Grafana for dashboarding.

• Cloud & Edge Computing: Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, as well as edge computing and its role in IoT.

• IoT Device Management: Experience managing a fleet of connected devices, including firmware updates, remote diagnostics, and over-the-air (OTA) updates.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Understanding of on-call rotations, alerting, and production monitoring best practices for embedded systems.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with Terraform or similar tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure.

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, Build & Release at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Learn your role, our team, our stakeholders, and the company as a whole.

• Build relationships with key members of the Devices team (developers, testers, SRE’s) via 1:1’s.

• Understand the two primary developer workflow stacks (GitHub & Gerrit+Jenkins).

• Understand how software is qualified by QA.

• Underst