Senior Software Engineer, Pipeline

Every community deserves to be safe, it’s a fundamental right. Our mission is simple - to build technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. Flock partners with cities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods to help protect where people live, work, and play. Last year, Flock technology supported over 1 million criminal investigations. We've also helped solve approximately 20% of reported crimes in areas where we're deployed, and have played a role in locating more than 10,000 missing people.

We are a high-performance team united by urgency, ownership, and a shared commitment to meaningful impact. The work is fast-paced and the expectations are high. We push beyond perceived limits, support each other, and hold ourselves accountable to delivering results that matter.

With over $1B in funding and an $8.3B valuation, we are scaling with intention and investing in the people who will help us build what others said could not be done. At Flock, you will find the opportunity to grow quickly, take on real responsibility, and contribute to something bigger than yourself.

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 images—no 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.

• 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 haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve 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.

We prescribe to 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 in this role at Flock.

• 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).

• Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options and solutions instead of asking “what should I do?”.

• 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.

• Able to contribute to each of the pipeline services’ 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.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $172,000 and $200,000 as well as Flock Stock Options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

Location

We’re building the impossible, together. To drive innovation through in-person collaboration, we’re prioritizing candidates in our key hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Austin. While we value the energy of our hub communities, we embrace remote work and welcome applications from exceptional talent across the United States.

The Perks

🌴Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, plus 11 company holidays.

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

🧠Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.

💖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.

💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo and so much more.

🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

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.

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.

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