Senior Software Engineer - Networking & Video Streaming

Salary: $149.6K - $187K Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution dedicated to eliminating crime and enhancing community safety. Our intelligent platform unifies cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies, leveraging the power of communities at scale to build a safer future together. We provide a trusted, full-service, maintenance-free technology solution that helps solve and deter crime, aiming for safer communities for everyone.

Our comprehensive and intelligent public safety platform offers actionable evidence to solve, deter, and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and entire cities. We achieve this by transforming unbiased data into objective answers, all while upholding transparency and privacy.

Flock aims to provide a career-defining experience where you can also make a significant impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we foster a supportive team environment that optimizes the remote experience to build strong and fulfilling relationships, even when physically apart. Our dedicated employees thrive in a positive and inclusive culture that rewards a bias towards action.

We have secured over $700 million in venture capital funding from prominent investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. With a valuation exceeding $7.5 billion, Flock is undergoing intentional scaling and is seeking top talent to help us achieve our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% within the next three years.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in networking and real-time video streaming, particularly in challenging and congested wireless environments.

In this role, you will:

• Own the end-to-end streaming architecture, designing and implementing an optimized solution tailored for a complex Flock use case involving both ground and aerial nodes.
• Develop and apply reliability metrics, with a strong emphasis on latency, throughput, and resiliency.
• Build and support automation frameworks to simulate real-world scenarios, stress-test the system, and continuously improve robustness and performance.
• Collaborate closely with software, systems, and cloud engineering teams to deliver an integrated, high-performing solution.

The Skillset

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3-5+ years of proven experience in real-time video applications, networking protocols, and performance optimization within constrained or challenging wireless environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement low-latency, high-reliability streaming solutions in dynamic, multi-node environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in C, C++, and Python.
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).
• Proven track record of excellent teamwork and successful collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with wireless standards, including 3GPP, Wi-Fi, or CV2X.
• Experience with commercial connectivity devices, such as Mobile and IoT solutions.
• Knowledge of wireless product software stacks.
• Familiarity with big data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.

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 Software Engineer at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days:

• Learn about Flock products and how to use them in the lab.