Senior Android Performance Engineer, Flock Safety
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
Public safety operating system
Job no longer available
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in C, Python, Kotlin, and SQL
- Solid experience in Android application development and embedded systems
- Expertise with performance and power analysis tools such as Android Studio Profiler, Systrace, Perfetto, and Battery Historian
- Experience with debugging and troubleshooting performance issues, including profiling resource usage and system bottlenecks
- Knowledge of version control and code collaboration tools such as Git/GitHub and Gerrit
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and integrating tests into CI pipelines
- Experience in creating and maintaining test infrastructure in a lab environment
- Familiarity with lab equipment like multimeters and oscilloscopes for validating measurement accuracy
What the job involves
- As Flock scales up its next-generation products, there is a growing need to expand our infrastructure to prioritize power and performance optimization and benchmarking
- In this role, you will own the performance of our systems, taking full responsibility for understanding, optimizing, and monitoring system performance
- You will extend the Systems team's capabilities by building out, implementing, and overseeing the necessary device-side measurements that define the performance, power, and reliability of our products
- Your expertise will ensure that our infrastructure not only meets current demands but is also robust enough to support future growth and innovation
- Responsible for building and scaling our strategies for benchmarking power, performance, and reliability
- Instrument software to capture and analyze performance and power measurement points
- Implement device-side measurements to track power consumption and resource usage
- Identify and debug performance bottlenecks across software and hardware layers
- Design and deploy real-time dashboards using Grafana for monitoring key performance and power metrics
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize power consumption and resource usage in embedded systems
- The First 30 Days
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Flock’s devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements
- Familiarize yourself with the device software architecture
- Connect with members of the Framework, Applications, and Quality teams
- Understand the goals for Systems test automation, including power measurements and resource usage
- The First 60 Days
- Introduce a test suite for benchmarking resource usage across OS and Apps releases
- Identify initial opportunities for performance optimizations in next-generation products
- Update power consumption tests to automate power measurements
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Take ownership of the power and performance test suites for our devices
- Implement quality gates necessary for software releases to prevent regressions
- Define thresholds for device-level alarms to detect potential field failures
- Begin implementing identified performance optimizations
Application 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
- 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
- The Technical Assessment: You will meet with a potential future coworker to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. You should expect the interview will cover the hard skills required to do the job, an architectural discussion, and an exploration of your past accomplishments and experiences. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. You will meet with several teammates and cross-functional partners. Engineers should expect a technical assessment through coding interviews or architecture discussions. Your recruiter will provide more details to ensure you are fully prepared for your big day
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet a leader within the Device Software team. They will be looking to get to know you better, understand your motivations, and understand your technical background. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. It's caught on too, with a funding round of $275 million awarded in 2025 that will be used to expand its manufacturing capabilities. lock Safety, a U.S. startup developing surveillance technology, has raised $275 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it invests in a manufacturing facility and expands into drone products, the company told Reuters. funding behind it, This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖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
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D 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
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(Founder & CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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