Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Video team, who are building extremely low-latency live video capabilities to solve crime and make the world a safer place. Not for the faint of heart, overwhelmingly impactful. These cameras bring high-definition, AI-powered video wherever our customers need it. With instant alerts and clear footage, customers are always in the know, making the area safer and smarter.

This engineer will spearhead the development of our cloud-based live and recorded video capabilities, encompassing everything from ingestion, encoding, packaging and delivery. We are experiencing explosive growth of live video sources with our ever-expanding fleet of Flock LTE-connected cameras as well as our ability to integrate and access 3rd party cameras to consume video. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to champion technical excellence, acting as a trusted advisor and mentor, and ensuring the team delivers scalable and robust solutions.

The Skillset 

• Experience with Video/Streaming technologies such as WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg, etc.

• Experience with Ingestion, encoding, packaging and delivery of live and recorded video

• Experience integrating with FFmpeg libraries such as libav

• Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services

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

• 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 designing and implementing APIs.

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

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 to 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 Staff Software Engineer Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Understand team workflows and processes

• Contribute smaller features and bugfixes with guidance

• Have all team repos cloned locally and have a good idea of what they do

The First 60 Days 

• Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance

• Contribute to technical planning and architecture discussions

• Understand design philosophies in use

• Contribute to metric collection and automated test suites

90 Days & Beyond 

• Understand how each integration type functions at a high level

• Come up with and speak on ideas for improving our speed, resource usage, API simplicity, and other topics to make our software suite better

• Start to own smaller projects

• Give meaningful PR and architecture feedback

• Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects succeed

The Interview Process 

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way.