Site Reliability Engineer III, Aviation

Site Reliability Engineer III, Aviation 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 Our Aviation organization is looking for an experienced SRE who will be responsible for designing and building systems, tooling, and processes to provide an extensible, scalable, and observable platform. They strive to empower our development teams to own and manage their full application stack, thus minimizing bottlenecks and optimizing development velocity without compromising on reliability. THE SKILLSET - Experience in an SRE role with an understanding of monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery - Extensive experience in writing production-quality code - Proficiency with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management (we use Terraform) - Experience with managing monitoring dashboards using tools like Grafana and Prometheus to create actionable alerts - Ability to ensure the system is running and in line with internal SLIs and SLOs - Experience refining CI/CD processes to ensure new code is pushed to production in a reliable and efficient manner - Ability to collaborate on creating a robust monitoring platform for our services and their underlying infrastructure, aiming to alert on symptoms and not outages - Familiarity with best practices when creating and managing AWS resources (e.g. security groups, VPCs) 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 Site Reliability Engineer at Flock Safety. The First 30 Days - Onboarding. Make a first day push to infrastructure using Terraform. - Meet the software engineering teams you’ll be working closely with, learn the Aerodome Platform codebase and how the software works together. - Learn Flock Safety’s AWS infrastructure, security, SRE, and engineering architecture, tooling, and policies. - KR1: Meet with Security, SRE, and compliance teams - KR2: Review available diagrams, policies, and any other relevant documents. - Create and deploy production releases of the Aerodome platform. The First 60 Days - Review and improve coverage of observability within the Aerodome platform through review and improvement of metrics/logs/traces/profiling, creating or updating dashboards and documents as needed. - Contribute to project development in a supportive role, advising software engineering teams of best practices that drive software engineering decisions. - Improve our CI pipeline, removing inefficiencies and speeding up developer feedback loops. - Create or improve ... (truncated, view full listing at source)