Staff Software Engineer, Flock Safety

• Have experience working on search-related features/architecture
• Understanding how different databases work will be key in building the next generation of search
• Data modeling (relational, document, graph)
• Storage Retrieval (Hash Indexes, SSTables, LSM-Trees, B-Trees)
• Encoding (JSON, xml, binary - protocol buffers)
• Replication and Partitioning
• Transactions Distributed Systems
• Comfortable taking on a large scope of work and making architectural decisions
• Background in building scalable, cloud-based solutions
• Familiarity with search-oriented tooling and technologies
• Be excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product

• The Investigate Team develops essential applications that enable customers to engage with Flock’s mission to eliminate crime effectively
• We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team to build and maintain our search and sharing data systems
• This role is crucial for addressing performance and scaling challenges, resolving technical debt, and modernizing legacy datastores
• A successful candidate will quickly learn our data storage landscape and be comfortable working independently and as part of a team to implement changes to our core system
• The First 30 Days:
• Familiarize yourself with the company's mission, products, and development processes
• Pair with each engineer on the team to learn about a service we own, and get to know your teammates better
• Build relationships with key stakeholders in the cloud software organization to understand their needs and expectations. Meeting with a member of the following teams:
• Data Engineering
• D&D Realtime, D&D Admin
• Platform/Pipeline
• Mobile
• Assess and Analyze:
• Evaluate the current search and sharing applications to identify performance, scaling, and data modeling issues
• Review existing codebase, architecture, and infrastructure to gain a deep understanding of the system
• Participate in reviewing teammates' code with an eye towards learning current practices and offering your unique perspective
• Ship some code
• Compete a first day push to production
• Participate in all DDI scrum ceremonies, picking up sprint tickets and working on delivering completed code with assistance from your teammates
• The First 60 Days:
• Learn the details of our deployment, monitoring and logging stacks, and suggest improvements to search related metrics or observability
• Ability to complete larger tasks, spanning multiple repositories with less assistance
• Improve the quality of code delivered by DDI
• Prioritize reviewing PRs submitted by your teammates, both to learn our existing patterns and practices and push your peers to use stronger patterns
• Establish a habit of running code locally when reviewing PRs that are higher impact or major rewrites. Push for changes and infrastructure that makes this easier for all to accomplish
• Help teach a skill or introduce a new development practice with your teammates
• 90 Days & Beyond:
• Demonstrate impact to teams outside D&D
• Represent our team on a cross-functional team project, delivering the needed solutions to support a new feature, and communicate back to your manager and the team any necessary updates
• Present recent work in a video demo to be shared with other teams
• Author an architecture document for a major new feature our team is building
• Or-
• Review multiple architecture docs and push for strong patterns, question assumptions, ensure clear vision is articulated
• Participate in one or more customer calls
• Lead our team in improving software quality
• Propose a solution to a user experience problem you have observed
• Be aware of newer best practices around the engineering organization and consistently encourage peers to adopt and adhere to these in PR reviews
• Complete a device installation ride-along

• 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 Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
• The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day
• 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. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners
• The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive in your function and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more

• 🌴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

Total funding: $582.7m

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.