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 Cloud Video team is looking to add a Staff Software Engineer to support our increasing number of integrations with other NVRs (network video recorders), VMS (video management systems), and video-capable devices. This engineer will contribute to creating new integrations, maintaining existing integrations, and Flock’s own VMS software.  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 

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

• Experience with Go, Typescript (Node) web services, and React or other Javascript frameworks

• Experience designing and implementing APIs. 

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

• 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. 

1. Our First Chat: During this first