Staff Software Engineer, Video Streaming

Who is Flock?

Every community deserves to be safe, it's a fundamental right. Our mission is simple - to build technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. Flock partners with cities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods to help protect where people live, work, and play. Last year, Flock technology supported over 1 million criminal investigations, helped solve approximately 20% of reported crimes in areas where it is deployed, and played a role in locating more than 10,000 missing people.

We are a high-performance team united by urgency, ownership, and a shared commitment to meaningful impact. The work is fast-paced and the expectations are high. We push beyond perceived limits, support each other, and hold ourselves accountable to delivering results that matter.

With over $1B in funding and an $8.3B valuation, we are scaling with intention and investing in the people who will help us build what others said could not be done. At Flock, you will find the opportunity to grow quickly, take on real responsibility, and contribute to something bigger than yourself.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Video team, who are building extremely low-latency live video capabilities to solve crime and make the world a safer place. Not for the faint of heart, overwhelmingly impactful. These cameras bring high-definition, AI-powered video wherever our customers need it. With instant alerts and clear footage, customers are always in the know, making the area safer and smarter.

This engineer will contribute to the development of our cloud-based live and recorded video capabilities, encompassing everything from ingestion, encoding, packaging, and delivery. We are experiencing explosive growth of live video sources with our ever-expanding fleet of Flock LTE-connected cameras, as well as our ability to integrate and access 3rd party cameras to consume video. We're looking for a Staff Engineer excited by the challenge of building live video, ready to roll up their sleeves and make an impact on communities across the nation.

The Skillset

• Experience with Video/Streaming technologies such as WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, FFmpeg (libav), etc.
• Experience with Ingestion, encoding, packaging and delivery of live and recorded video
• Experience integrating with FFmpeg libraries such as libav
• Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services
• Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Prometheus, Grafana
• 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 designing and implementing APIs.
• Ivs, livekit, and orchestration experience a plus
• 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

Salary & Equity

In this role, you'll receive a starting salary between $200,000 and $225,000 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.

The Perks

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. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.

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 grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.

ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.

Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment. Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check.

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at View email address on click.appcast.io. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.


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