Site Reliability Engineer, Flock
IoT Observability
$140-160k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
Job no longer available
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$140-160k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing software for embedded systems, especially large/complex ones
- Strong coding skills (ex: C/C++, Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms
- Strong & advanced SQL skills (ex: window functions, joins)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (ex: Bash) to automate processes
- Data visualization & dashboarding (ex: Grafana, Sigma)
- Broad experience with Databases & Logging: SQL (ex: PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Time Series (ex: Prometheus, DataDog)
- Volume data processing (ingestion, pipelines, modeling, storage)
- Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems
- Site Reliability Engineering for IoT devices (on-call, monitoring, & alerting)
- Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation, branching, semantic versioning)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (Ansible, Terraform)
What the job involves
- The Device SRE team owns deployment of software to our fleet of IoT devices, as well as observability during and after deployment
- This involves working in the entire stack from telemetry/event generation in the firmware, data ingestion into the cloud, visualization of data, and alarms that indicate issues
- We are expanding our scope beyond Cameras to include Aviation devices
- Our goal is to provide consistent infrastructure, processes, and tools across the organization that enable the development team to roll out new software rapidly and reliably, while enabling them to identify and respond to issues quickly, resulting in fast rollouts of new features with minimal downtime
- The First 30 Days
- Maintain and improve data collected from devices for monitoring fleet health
- Improve ability to identify and root-cause issues in the fleet, including automated alarms
- Maintain and build out dashboards that provide insight into fleet health
- Streamline software rollout workflows and monitoring to reduce manual steps and improve response times
- Define and build out on-call rotations for monitoring fleet health
- Perform ad-hoc analysis of unexpected issues by analyzing data collected from the fleet
- Participate in on-call rotations to serve as first responder for outages and general requests from stakeholders
- The First 60 Days
- Improve or create a Grafana dashboard
- Improve or create a Sigma dashboard
- Improve or create a piece of telemetry data or event in device firmware
- Review the code of other engineers in GitHub and Gerrit
- 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
- 90 Days & Beyond
- 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
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 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 builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. The company has raised strong funding to support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. But it has also faced a large dose of backlash from groups and individuals who are concerned about its capability for mass surveillance and the privacy of the data it collects.
Steph
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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