Senior Software Engineer, Flock
Pipeline
$172-200k
Offers Equity
Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172-200k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- 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 (ownership mindset)
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript backend patterns (Node.js, async behavior, typing complex data structures)
- Proficiency or a strong willingness to scale up quickly in Go, as the team is actively migrating to be more Go-heavy in the future
- Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing distributed systems at scale (handling heavy traffic load and massive data ingestion)
- Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, leveraging Postgres DB, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Redis. Ability to tune and optimize PostgreSQL performance when multiple services are interacting with it
- Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), SQS, SNS,, and Docker
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working tightly with adjacent teams such as Hardware, ML, Web,, Mobile, and Data Science
- Experience acting as a domain expert, mentoring junior engineers through code reviews, finding teaching moments, and making the success of the team a bigger priority
- Feeling uneasy that you havenât ticked every box? Thatâs okay; weâve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. 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 pipeline team is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to bolster our efforts to accommodate the rapid expansion of our workload. Flock is continuing to expand to more customers and with that comes more data
- Today, Flock processes around 2 billion assets daily in real time (including License Plate Recognition data, audio clips, and imagesâno raw video). For Flock to keep momentum, we need to keep the pipeline latency low, handle massive asset volumes, solve scalability issues and build new features that support the business
- This role centers on data processing and architectural design within a high-scale backend ecosystem
- The First 30 Days
- 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
- Ask questions in a public way to spread knowledge (e.g., public Slack channels)
- The First 60 Days
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options and solutions instead of asking âwhat should I do?â
- 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
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Able to contribute to each of the pipeline servicesâ purpose
- Have 3-5 ideas of where you see risk (stability, features, process, etc.)
- Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency, taking on larger size and more ambiguous engineering tasks
- Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
- Contributing ideas for how we build better software with foresight and flexibility
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
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
- đ´Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- âď¸Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- đŞFamily Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- đźFertility & 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
- đ§ Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- đCaregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- đ¸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- đťWFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- đL&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- đ Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- đ˘Coworking Space: If youâre not local to our ATL HQ, weâll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- đžPet Insurance: Weâve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employeeâs 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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