Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

Flock Safety

52d•$175,000 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

The Machine Learning team at Flock Safety leverages various software and infrastructure to support the development and deployment of models. This platform has been created from the effort and creativity of ML, Software, and Site Reliability Engineers. Given the current scale of ML, we are looking for a foundational Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform to solely focus on the ML platform. Your mission is to improve the software, infrastructure, and systems that enable ML Engineers to research, develop and deliver intelligence products, as well as working with Cloud Platform on maintaining and improving ML inference services. An ideal candidate has a good breadth of experience of software, infrastructure, and CI/CD around the ML space, who enjoys creating a space that allows R&D and Production services to run fast and safely.

Requirements

Proven track record of owning, developing, maintaining, and evolving custom internal software tools and systems.
Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization technologies like Terraform, Packer, and Docker, ideally for building and managing robust R&D environments.
Expertise in designing, implementing, and improving CI/CD pipelines, standardizing the full ML lifecycle from testing and image creation to release tagging and production deployment.
Strategic understanding of ML repository architecture, knowing when to leverage a monorepo versus breaking out services into separate repositories to optimize the development lifecycle.
Strong software engineer at heart, skilled in optimizing software for performance, testability, and extensibility, with a keen eye for identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities.
Proficient in Python and familiarity in Go
A natural collaborator, adept at partnering with cross-functional ML, Software, and SRE teams to enhance the throughput and scalability of production inference servers
You thrive as a technical leader and the go-to expert for ML infrastructure, specialized build systems, and operational software.

Responsibilities

Own and Extend MLOps systems: Take primary ownership of Flock’s custom MLOps tools and systems, leading its development, maintenance, and evolution.
Own and Extend ML R&D Infrastructure: ML uses infrastructure like Packer, Terraform, Docker to allow ML Engineers to quickly create R&D environments for experimentation and development.
Improve CI/CD of ML R&D and Production code bases: ML uses GitHub actions to trigger testing, image creation, release tagging, and production deployment.
Improve design and security of ML software:
Update software to improve performance, testing, and extensibility
Resolve vulnerabilities and other securities issues
Help Production Inference: Partner with ML Engineers, Software, and SRE to improve throughput and scalability of our inference servers, and also to expand its use to support additional models
Be the Platform Expert: Serve as the primary point of contact and technical leader for the ML team on all issues related to infrastructure, specialized build systems, and operational software.

Benefits

🌴Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, 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 and so much more.
🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.