Flock Safety · 5 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Data Pipeline
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$171K/yr - $190K/yrFlock Safety is a technology company dedicated to enhancing public safety through innovative solutions. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their pipeline team, focusing on scaling data ingestion and building features to support their audio analysis platform. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and optimizing systems that process significant amounts of acoustic data.
ManufacturingPublic SafetySecuritySensor
Responsibilities
Understand current processes and procedures
Work on small tasks for the sprint with support
Work towards understanding how the pipeline at Flock works
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain context on how they leverage the pipeline
Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc
Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options of solutions instead of “what should I do?”
High-level understanding of the features we are working on
Understand the software design philosophies being used
Be comfortable navigating through the code base
Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input
To-do: Add decent-sized feature
Able to explain each of the pipeline services’ purpose
Have 3-5 ideas of where you see risk (stability, features, process, etc)
Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency
Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity
Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
Contributing ideas for how we build better software
Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
Qualification
Required
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 Go and Typescript (Node) web services
Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale – We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time
Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, Redis (use the right tool for the job)
Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams
Benefits
Flexible PTO : We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees : including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
Family Leave : All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2025, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
ERGs: 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.
WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.
Company
Flock Safety
Flock Safety provides end-to-end surveillance solutions to support law enforcement and communities.
Founded in 2017
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
2022 (2)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$655.58MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzTiger Global ManagementMeritech Capital Partners
2025-03-13Series F· $275M
2022-02-15Series E· $150M
2021-07-13Series D· $150M
Leadership Team
Garrett Langley
Founder & CEO
Mandy Schuler
Vice President Supply Chain
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