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Company

Flock Safety · 5 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Investigate

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$185K/yr - $205K/yr

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ManufacturingPublic Safety

Comp. & Benefits

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U.S. Citizen Only

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Responsibilities

Familiarize yourself with the company's mission, products, and development processes.

Pair with each engineer on the team to learn about a service we own, and get to know your teammates better

Build relationships with key stakeholders in the cloud software organization to understand their needs and expectations.

Evaluate the current search and sharing applications to identify performance, scaling, and data modeling issues.

Review existing codebase, architecture, and infrastructure to gain a deep understanding of the system.

Participate in reviewing teammates' code with an eye towards learning current practices and offering your unique perspective.

Compete a first day push to production

Participate in all DDI scrum ceremonies, picking up sprint tickets and working on delivering completed code with assistance from your teammates.

Learn the details of our deployment, monitoring and logging stacks, and suggest improvements to search related metrics or observability.

Prioritize reviewing PRs submitted by your teammates, both to learn our existing patterns and practices and push your peers to use stronger patterns.

Help teach a skill or introduce a new development practice with your teammates.

Represent our team on a cross-functional team project, delivering the needed solutions to support a new feature, and communicate back to your manager and the team any necessary updates.

Present recent work in a video demo to be shared with other teams.

Author an architecture document for a major new feature our team is building or review multiple architecture docs and push for strong patterns, question assumptions, ensure clear vision is articulated.

Participate in one or more customer calls.

Propose a solution to a user experience problem you have observed.

Be aware of newer best practices around the engineering organization and consistently encourage peers to adopt and adhere to these in PR reviews.

Complete a device installation ride-along.

Qualification

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Search-related featuresData modelingStorage RetrievalReplicationPartitioningDistributed SystemsCloud-based solutionsSearch-oriented toolingJSONXMLBinary Protocol BuffersHash IndexesSSTablesLSM-TreesB-TreesArchitectural decisions

Required

Have experience working on search-related features/architecture.

Understanding how different databases work will be key in building the next generation of search.

Data modeling (relational, document, graph)

Storage Retrieval (Hash Indexes, SSTables, LSM-Trees, B-Trees)

Encoding (JSON, xml, binary - protocol buffers)

Replication and Partitioning

Transactions Distributed Systems

Comfortable taking on a large scope of work and making architectural decisions

Background in building scalable, cloud-based solutions

Familiarity with search-oriented tooling and technologies

Be excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.

Benefits

Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2024, Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.

We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support

Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.

$150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

$250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.

A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.

Company

Flock Safety

Glassdoor

3.9

Flock Safety provides a full-service tech solution that helps communities prevent crime, shaping a safer future together.

Founded in 2017

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

501-1000 employees

https://www.flocksafety.com

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