Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About Flock Safety

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded.

We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity

Our SRE organization is responsible for empowering our developers with building tooling and utilities to allow developers to push features and new applications with confidence. They also own our continuous build and deployment system, and the infrastructure for our environments. They work with other engineers to ensure the system is working appropriately now and for the future by building out and evangelizing application and infrastructure instrumentation and observability.

The Skillset

• Senior level of experience in an SRE role with an understanding of monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
• Extensive experience in writing production-quality code (we use Go, Python, Some Typescript for github actions CI/CD)
• 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)

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.

90 Days at Flock

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 at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Understand 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

Job Details

• Salary: $171K - $190K
• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: FullTime