Senior Backend Software Engineer, Flock Safety
$171-190k
+ Flock Safety Stock Options
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$171-190k
+ Flock Safety Stock Options
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
- Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services
- Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale â We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time
- Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, Redis (use the right tool for the job)
- Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams
- If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment
- Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check
- 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 in the audio space
- Flock is continuing to expand to more customers and with that comes more data
- For Flock to keep momentum, we need to keep the pipeline latency low and handle the scale of data ingestion as well as build new features that support the business
- Audio serves as Flockâs earliest signal of danger; often triggering the very first alert in incidents ranging from gunfire and crashes to distress calls and chaotic disturbances
- Our systems ingest and analyze over 7,500 hours of acoustic data daily, transforming raw sound into structured, actionable intelligence in near real time
- In this role, youâll help scale a critical pipeline that filters noise from signal, enables detection of new threat types, and supports time-sensitive workflows across our broader safety platform
- 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
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc
- The First 60 Days:
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options of solutions instead of 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
- To-do: Add decent-sized feature
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Able to explain 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
- Be 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
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
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, youâll 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. 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
- 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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