Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.
We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.
With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.
The pipeline team is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to bolster our efforts to accommodate the rapid expansion of our workload in the audio space. Flock is continuing to expand to more customers and with that comes more data. For Flock to keep momentum, we need to keep the pipeline latency low and handle the scale of data ingestion as well as build new features that support the business.
Audio serves as Flock’s earliest signal of danger; often triggering the very first alert in incidents ranging from gunfire and crashes to distress calls and chaotic disturbances. Our systems ingest and analyze over 7,500 hours of acoustic data daily, transforming raw sound into structured, actionable intelligence in near real time. In this role, you’ll help scale a critical pipeline that filters noise from signal, enables detection of new threat types, and supports time-sensitive workflows across our broader safety platform.
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 Go and Typescript (Node) web services
Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale – We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time.
Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, Redis (use the right tool for the job)
Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product team
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 Safety.
The First 30 Days
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
Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc
The First 60 Days
Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options of solutions instead of “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
To-do: Add decent-sized feature
90 Days & Beyond
Able to explain 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
Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity
Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
Contributing ideas for how we build better software
Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months.
We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way.
Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are.
The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field.
The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day.
The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners.
The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.
In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $171,000 and $200,000 as well as Flock Safety 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.
🌴Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, 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. In 2025, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
💖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 gr
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