Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Flock Safety
Device Observability
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
SQL
AWS
Groovy
Python
R
Java
Postgres
Terraform
Jenkins
Prometheus
Grafana
Git
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Open for applications
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
SQL
AWS
Groovy
Python
R
Java
Postgres
Terraform
Jenkins
Prometheus
Grafana
Git
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Strong coding skills (ex: Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms
- Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation) and tools (ex: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Databases & Logging: SQL (ex: PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Time Series (ex: Prometheus, DataDog)
- Volume data processing (ingestion, pipelines, modeling, storage)
- Data visualization & dashboarding (ex: Grafana)
- Statistics & data analysis
- Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems
- IoT device management
- Site Reliability Engineering: on-call rotations, alerting, production monitoring
- Infrastructure as Code (ex: Terraform)
What the job involves
- The Device SRE team owns software build and release automation for the Devices team. We are expanding the scope of our ownership and automation to encompass the deployment and monitoring of software to our fleet of devices
- The existing process for deploying a software release to the fleet is very manual and leverages a lot of human analysis of various data sources. Our goal is to make this process as fast, objective, and automated as possible while minimizing outages caused by poor quality
- We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Senior SRE, Devices Observability at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Learn your role, our team, our stakeholders, and the company as a whole
- Build relationships with key members of the Devices team (developers, testers, SRE’s) via 1:1’s
- Understand the two primary developer workflow stacks (GitHub & Gerrit+Jenkins)
- Understand how software is qualified by QA
- Understand how software is deployed to devices in the fleet
- Understand how device fleet health is monitored via Grafana, DataDog, and other tools
- Work closely with your manager to understand the process of getting work done (communications tools, meetings, issue tracking, etc)
- Join twice-weekly Office Hours meetings to get to know stakeholders and their needs
- Join twice-monthly Fleet Management meetings to understand how we interact
- Learn Flock solution architecture: Deep dive to understand how each component is interconnected
- The First 60 Days
- Improve (bug / feature) a software-release-related dashboard in Grafana
- Improve (bug / feature) the automated software release notes
- Improve (bug / feature) the GitHub Actions or Jenkins Pipelines for software build and release
- Review the code of other engineers in GitHub and Gerrit
- Onboard a new Devices Engineer into required systems
- 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
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 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 and view Flock from a different lens. 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. 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
Top investors
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $382.7m
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 values
- Embrace change to grow - The only “status quo” at Flock Safety are the outdated systems we plan to disrupt. Our employees know the importance of scaling a business that can continue to serve our growing number of customers and communities. We make a plan, but pivot for the greater good.
- Do the work - We value bias towards action and share a strong commitment to solving problems quickly. No task is beneath any of us, and we always go above and beyond to make communities safer.
- Optimism with a plan - Our teams and leaders set lofty goals, but not without thorough planning and sustained accountability. Here at Flock, you contribute to a positive and supportive workplace while benefiting from a high-performance culture.
- Protect the whole community - Our job at Flock is to positively impact all citizens of a community. Our technology impacts millions of lives of people we will never meet, and that is a serious responsibility.
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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Leadership
Garrett Langley
(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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