Staff Software Engineer, Video Streaming

Flock

17h•$200,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

Flock 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. 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 Senior Engineer excited by the challenge of building live video, ready to roll up their sleeves and make an impact on communities across the nation.

Requirements

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.
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams

Nice To Haves

Ivs, livekit, and orchestration experience a plus

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of our cloud-based live and recorded video capabilities, encompassing everything from ingestion, encoding, packaging, and delivery
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
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
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
Own smaller projects
Give meaningful PR and architecture feedback
Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects succeed

Benefits

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.