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Flock Safety · 9 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability, Device Observability

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $190K/yr

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Responsibilities

Own software build and release automation for the Devices team.

Expand the scope of ownership and automation to encompass the deployment and monitoring of software to our fleet of devices.

Make the software release process as fast, objective, and automated as possible while minimizing outages caused by poor quality.

Learn your role, our team, our stakeholders, and the company as a whole.

Build relationships with key members of the Devices team (developers, testers, SRE’s) via 1:1’s.

Understand the two primary developer workflow stacks (GitHub & Gerrit+Jenkins).

Understand how software is qualified by QA.

Understand how software is deployed to devices in the fleet.

Understand how device fleet health is monitored via Grafana, DataDog, and other tools.

Work closely with your manager to understand the process of getting work done (communications tools, meetings, issue tracking, etc).

Join twice-weekly Office Hours meetings to get to know stakeholders and their needs.

Join twice-monthly Fleet Management meetings to understand how we interact.

Learn Flock solution architecture: Deep dive to understand how each component is interconnected.

Improve (bug / feature) a software-release-related dashboard in Grafana.

Improve (bug / feature) the automated software release notes.

Improve (bug / feature) the GitHub Actions or Jenkins Pipelines for software build and release.

Review the code of other engineers in GitHub and Gerrit.

Onboard a new Devices Engineer into required systems.

Modify infrastructure in Terraform.

Take a crash course in the incident response protocols for Flock Safety.

Participate in on-call rotations (initially paired with a more experienced team member).

Discuss high level career goals and expectations with your manager.

Help with any cross-team needs/dependencies.

Contribute ideas for how we build better software, increase productivity, and deliver more value to customers.

Implement actions that increase customer satisfaction and developer satisfaction.

Participate in at least 3 customer calls within your first 90 days.

Work with a field tech to do a Field Ops Ride-Along.

Evaluate the first 90 days with your manager to highlight successes and learning opportunities.

Qualification

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PythonAlgorithmsContinuous integrationSQLVolume data processingCloud computingIoT device managementSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeRJavaScriptJavaGroovyTest automationGitJenkinsPostgreSQLNoSQLData visualizationStatisticsData analysisAWSDistributed systemsTerraformGitHub ActionsTime SeriesPrometheusDataDogDashboardingOn-call rotations

Required

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

Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation) and tools (ex: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Databases & Logging: SQL (ex: PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Time Series (ex: Prometheus, DataDog)

Volume data processing (ingestion, pipelines, modeling, storage)

Data visualization & dashboarding (ex: Grafana)

Statistics & data analysis

Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems

IoT device management

Site Reliability Engineering: on-call rotations, alerting, production monitoring

Infrastructure as Code (ex: Terraform)

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 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.

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.

$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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