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

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of data solutions to enable our engineering, operations, and business teams to leverage its data effectively, better automate its processes, and monitor and react to issues. This engineer will play a major role in Flock Safety’s real-time analytics technical strategy and execution.

The Skillset

• Experience with Data Stack/Infrastructure and tooling such as:

  • Redshift, GCP, etc..– Enterprise Data Warehouse

  • Infrastructure as Code/Deployment – Terraform, GitHub Actions

  • Data Ingestion – Debezium, Third Party APIs, Streaming (Kinesis Data Firehose)

  • Data Transformation – DBT, Prefect

  • Observability – Grafana

  • Reporting/Data Visualization – Sigma, QuickSight

• Able to take on complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persist towards a good solution

• Effectively communicate, at the level of your audience, and seek to understand and be understood

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 Senior Data Engineer at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Meet the team & cross-functional stakeholders

• One major cultural component within Flock’s engineering teams is the “first day push”. The first day push focuses setup and onboarding to the things that matter to deliver value.

• Understand the systems and processes in place that Data Engineering uses, and leverage them to produce additional value

The First 60 Days

• Support and develop Data Engineering initiatives (ETL pipeline, API ingestion, etc..)

• Learn the cross-team relationships and work, and use them to drive a larger impact to the company.

90 Days & Beyond

• Becoming responsible for the team’s systems and processes, and making sure they are well-engineered.

• Identify at least 3 issues/optimizations for the team

• Reviewer for all Data Engineering PRs

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 conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are.

2. The Hiring Manager Int