Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Devices

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

The Device SRE team owns software build and release automation for the Devices team. We are expanding the scope of our ownership and automation to encompass the deployment and monitoring of software to our fleet of devices. The existing process for deploying a software release to the fleet is very manual and leverages a lot of human analysis of various data sources. Our goal is to make this process as fast, objective, and automated as possible while minimizing outages caused by poor quality.

The Skillset

• Strong coding skills (ex: Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms
• Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation) and tools (ex: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Databases & Logging: SQL (ex: PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Time Series (ex: Prometheus, DataDog)
• Volume data processing (ingestion, pipelines, modeling, storage)
• Data visualization & dashboarding (ex: Grafana)
• Statistics & data analysis
• Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems
• IoT device management
• Site Reliability Engineering: on-call rotations, alerting, production monitoring
• Infrastructure as Code (ex: Terraform)

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, Devices Observability at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Learn your role, our team, our stakeholders, and the company as a whole.
• Build relationships with key members of the Devices team (developers, testers, SRE’s) via 1:1’s.
• Understand the two primary developer workflow stacks (GitHub & Gerrit+Jenkins).
• Understand how software is qualified by QA.
• Understand how software is deployed to devices in the fleet.
• Understand how device fleet health is monitored via Grafana, DataDog, and other tools.
• Work closely with your manager to understand the process of getting work done (communication

Job Details

• Salary: $150K - $190K
• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: FullTime