Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Flock Safety
$150-215k
+ Stock Options
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-215k
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Senior level of experience in an SRE role with an understanding of monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
- Extensive experience in writing production-quality code
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management (we use Terraform)
- Experience with managing monitoring dashboards using tools like Grafana and Prometheus to create actionable alerts
- Ability to ensure the system is running and in line with internal SLIs and SLOs
- Experience refining CI/CD processes to ensure new code is pushed to production in a reliable and efficient manner
- Ability to collaborate on creating a robust monitoring platform for our services and their underlying infrastructure, aiming to alert on symptoms and not outages
- Familiarity with best practices when creating and managing AWS resources (e.g. security groups, VPCs)
What the job involves
- Our SRE organization is responsible for designing and building systems, tooling, and processes to provide an extensible, scalable, and observable platform
- They strive to empower our development teams to own and manage their full application stack, thus minimizing bottlenecks and optimizing development velocity without compromising on reliability
- The First 30 Days:
- Understand our current cloud build and deployment process(overall SDLC)
- Deep dive into the architecture of the Flock system to understand how each component is interconnected
- Overview of Terraform/IAC
- Overview of ML workflows
- Overview of SRE team charter/purpose
- Active participation in a full sprint cycle with all ceremonies the SRE team utilizes to plan work
- The First 60 Days:
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance
- Ability to complete medium-sized tasks with little support
- Regularly assisting in the resolution of help-desk requests
- Regularly participates in the peer review process and meaningful technical discussions
- In-depth/complex understanding of various infrastructure/tooling components
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Ability to perform the role with little guidance with transparency
- Comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity
- Support ongoing efforts for our current themes and goals should be a top priority
- Converted 2-3 repos from Jenkins to GHA’s in support of the GHA migration
- Complete an Initial review and career planning deep dive session with your manager
- Proficiency with Infrastructure manipulation via tooling, IAC, pipelines/workflows, and manual operations along with understanding potential side effects/impact those changes have at scale/under load
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 in your function 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
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $582.7m
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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