Senior Software Engineer, Pipeline

Senior Software Engineer, Pipeline WHO IS FLOCK? 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 OPPORTUNITY 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. 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 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. 90 DAYS AT FLOCK 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 - A ... (truncated, view full listing at source)