Staff Software Engineer, Flock Safety
ML Platform
$200-225k
Offers Equity
More information about location
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-225k
Offers Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record of owning, developing, maintaining, and evolving custom internal software tools and systems
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization technologies like Terraform, Packer, and Docker, ideally for building and managing robust R&D environments
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and improving CI/CD pipelines, standardizing the full ML lifecycle from testing and image creation to release tagging and production deployment
- Strategic understanding of ML repository architecture, knowing when to leverage a monorepo versus breaking out services into separate repositories to optimize the development lifecycle
- Strong software engineer at heart, skilled in optimizing software for performance, testability, and extensibility, with a keen eye for identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities
- Proficient in Python and C++, with familiarity in Go
- A natural collaborator, adept at partnering with cross-functional ML, Software, and SRE teams to enhance the throughput and scalability of production inference servers
- You thrive as a technical leader and the go-to expert for ML infrastructure, specialized build systems, and operational software
What the job involves
- The Machine Learning team at Flock Safety leverages various software and infrastructure to support the development and deployment of models
- This platform has been created from the effort and creativity of ML, Software, and Site Reliability Engineers
- Given the current scale of ML, we are looking for a foundational Staff Software Engineer, ML Platform to solely focus on the ML platform
- Your mission is to improve the software, infrastructure, and systems that enable ML Engineers to research, develop and deliver intelligence products, as well as working with Cloud Platform on maintaining and improving ML inference services
- An ideal candidate has a good breadth of experience of software, infrastructure, and CI/CD around the ML space, who enjoys creating a space that allows R&D and Production services to run fast and safely
- Own and Extend MLOps systems: Take primary ownership of Flock’s custom MLOps tools and systems, leading its development, maintenance, and evolution
- Own and Extend ML R&D Infrastructure: ML uses infrastructure like Packer, Terraform, Docker to allow ML Engineers to quickly create R&D environments for experimentation and development
- Improve CI/CD of ML R&D and Production code bases: ML uses GitHub actions to trigger testing, image creation, release tagging, and production deployment
- Improve design and security of ML software:
- Update software to improve performance, testing, and extensibility
- Resolve vulnerabilities and other securities issues
- Help Production Inference: Partner with ML Engineers, Software, and SRE to improve throughput and scalability of our inference servers, and also to expand its use to support additional models
- Be the Platform Expert: Serve as the primary point of contact and technical leader for the ML team on all issues related to infrastructure, specialized build systems, and operational software
- The First 30 Days
- Standardize review and remediation process of high-risk security violations in key development projects
- Enhance the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a core development project
- The First 60 Days
- Update build scripts for key development projects to use current operating systems and drivers
- Implement a new feature in our Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops) system, such as artifact management
- First 90 Days
- Improve reliability of our ML Ops systems
- Optimize a specific ML project after profiling its performance
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.
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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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