Who is Flock?

Flock 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

Flock is looking for a Staff Engineer in Device SRE to join the new Test Experience team. The team is responsible for delivering a scalable, reliable, observable, and self-service test experience for developers and testers. The team owns the construction and maintenance of the test platform and infrastructure as a managed service, applying core SRE disciplines to ensure consistency and reliability. Through standardization and shared services, the platform supports distributed ownership, with partner teams building and maintaining test suites and lab hardware for hardware-in-the-loop testing.

This role will work directly with several other teams:

• Device SRE Developer Experience: to integrate into existing build and release workflows and provide seamless contextual text execution and feedback to developers.

• Device SRE Release Experience: to integrate test results into release notes and release readiness reporting.

• Test Developers: to provide a test framework that abstracts hardware control (ex: ADB, firmware flashing), common services (ex: Qase), and status monitoring, so that test developers can focus on use cases and coverage instead of hardware quirks, lab outages, and service integrations.

• Lab Engineers: to provide a test framework that clarifies the abstractions provided and therefore sets the standard for control, responsiveness, observability, and uptime.

• Device Software Developers: to triage and repair test platform and infrastructure failures quickly and unblock development.

Additionally, this role will have a strong focus on designing and implementing advanced infrastructure practices for lab hardware such as self-healing and failover, so that we are not just reacting to outages but preventing them.

Please note: While we are a remote-first company and the typical work week can be conducted remotely, this position may require travel 1-3 times per year.

The Skillset

• Strong and transparent communicator, good leadership skills, and comfortable leading through influence across teams with technical excellence

• Excited to solve new problems in a fast-paced environment while balancing short-term and long-term needs of the business

• Experience developing and testing complex software systems (preferably embedded),

• Experience building and refactoring complex software platforms on which stakeholders build applications

• Strong coding skills (ex: C/C++, Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms

• Proficiency in scripting languages (ex: Bash) to automate processes

• Instrumentation, visualization, and alerting with metrics (ex: Prometheus, Grafana)

• Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems

• Site Reliability Engineering (on-call, monitoring, & alerting)

• Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation, branching, semantic versioning)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (ex: Ansible, Terraform)

• Experience building hardware abstraction software, with an appreciation for the unique challenges in controlling physical hardware that is not production-ready

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 week