Senior Video Software Engineer
at Flock Safety — The first public safety operating system that eliminates crime.
What the role involves
Who is Flock?
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 $380M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $4B 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 Cloud Video team is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to support our increasing number of integrations with other NVRs (network video recorders), VMS (video management systems), and video-capable devices. This engineer will contribute to creating new integrations, maintaining existing integrations, and Flock’s own VMS software.
The Skillset
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.
Experience with Video/Streaming technologies such as WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg, GStreamer, etc.
Experience with Go, Typescript (Node) web services, and React or other Javascript frameworks
Experience designing and implementing APIs.
Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams
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 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 as a Senior Software Engineer Flock Safety.
The First 30 Days
Understand team workflows and processes
Contribute smaller features and bugfixes with guidance
Have all team repos cloned locally and have a good idea of what they do
The First 60 Days
Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance
Contribute to technical planning and architecture discussions
Understand design philosophies in use
Contribute to metric collection and automated test suites
90 Days & Beyond
Understand how each integration type functions at a high level
Come up with and speak on ideas for improving our speed, resource usage, API simplicity, and other topics to make our software suite better
Start to own smaller projects
Give meaningful PR and architecture feedback
Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects succeed
The Perks
💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $170,000-$190,00
About Flock Safety
Flock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society. Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere. Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart. Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised $150M in our Series E led by Tiger Global at a $3.5B valuation.
Full Flock Safety profile