Senior Data Engineer, Flock Safety
Nova
$170-190k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170-190k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Love for coding and a commitment to continuous learning
- A resourceful problem-solver mindset, excelling in ambiguous situations and taking initiative
- Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company
- Excitement about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product
- Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, with the ability to switch to TypeScript/Node.js to support our PERN stack application
- Extensive experience designing and building scalable ETL workflows and data pipelines. (Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or Prefect is a strong plus)
- Deep expertise with PostgreSQL and advanced SQL skills. You are comfortable writing complex queries, optimizing performance, and handling integrations across a variety of different database systems
- Experience architecting robust 3rd party integrations, ensuring data consistency and reliability when communicating with external APIs
- Familiarity with the React ecosystem (or similar frameworks like Vue/Angular), with the ability to contribute to the frontend of our full-stack applications when necessary
- Confidence in system architecture with a focus on scaling data pipelines and managing high-volume data ingestion
- Confidence in microservices and system design
- Confidence with Docker for local development and remote deployment via Helm to Kubernetes
- Experience with AWS managed services (e.g., S3, API Gateway, SNS/SQS)
- Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC patterns
- We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day
What the job involves
- The Nova team is building a “single pane of glass” for investigators. The purpose is to connect the investigator to the many disparate sources of data they already have access to in order to make it easier to “connect the dots” and build a picture around their case work
- The technical challenges to enable these tools are diverse and sophisticated
- The team needs a strong engineer to build integrations to the many data sources as well as build stronger bindings to the overall Flock Software Platform
- Our engineers work directly with our customers and are able to react with high value and often real life impacting results
- Flock believes that many facets of our work are “Better Together” and that infuses how we think about the various products we offer as well as how we work together individually and collectively. This provides a vast opportunity to work across multiple teams and skillsets and not only elevate the company but our engineers as well
- The First 30 Days:
- Meet with stakeholders
- Understand your role on the team
- Understand current processes and procedures (aka the Flock way)
- Have contributed and know how to contribute code to all repos owned by your team
- Asking questions in a public way to understand and spread knowledge; i.e., public slack channels, etc
- The First 60 Days:
- Be able to perform the role with a decreased need for guidance
- Be able to complete ownership of medium-sized tasks with little support
- Possess a high-level understanding of the features we are working on
- Understand the software design philosophies being used
- Comfortable navigating through all owned code bases
- Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input
- Building strong relationships with your team members
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Demonstrating strong communication skills and owning the full lifecycle of your work
- 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
- Be on at least 1 customer call within your 90 days
- Have a sense of where you want to grow at Flock
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.
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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