Flock - Staff Device SRE, Test Platform

• Strong and transparent communicator, good leadership skills, and comfortable leading through influence across teams with technical excellence • Excited to solve new problems in a fast-paced environment while balancing short-term and long-term needs of the business • Experience developing and testing complex software systems (preferably embedded), • Experience building and refactoring complex software platforms on which stakeholders build applications • Strong coding skills (ex: C/C++, Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms • Proficiency in scripting languages (ex: Bash) to automate processes • Instrumentation, visualization, and alerting with metrics (ex: Prometheus, Grafana) • Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems • Site Reliability Engineering (on-call, monitoring, & alerting) • Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation, branching, semantic versioning) • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (ex: Ansible, Terraform) • Experience building hardware abstraction software, with an appreciation for the unique challenges in controlling physical hardware that is not production-ready • 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 • 90 Days at Flock • We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 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 Device SRE with Flock Safety. • The First 30 Days • The First 30 Days • Get acquainted with the company, the team, the mission, and the product/customer experience • Observe the Flock Culture as it applies to your team and your day to day experience • Participate in on-call rotations to serve as first responder for outages and general requests from stakeholders • Learn the existing test platform and infrastructure, and how it integrates into build and release workflows as well as production deployments • Review the code of other engineers in GitHub and Gerrit • Fix a bug in the test platform • Modify infrastructure in Terraform • The First 60 Days • The First 60 Days • Make an improvement in the test platform • Add a metric to the test platform into Prometheus, visualize it with Grafana, and create an on-call alert when it's out-of-spec and needs intervention • Discuss high-level career goals and expectations with your manager • Provide a short-term plan for remediating the top 3 most painful issues in the existing test platform and infrastructure • 90 Days & Beyond • 90 Days & Beyond • Visit the hardware lab in Atlanta to observe how it functions and meet the local engineers • Remediate the top 3 most painful issues in the existing test platform and infrastructure • Provide a holistic long-term plan for test platform and infrastructure that makes it a best-in-class system • ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match. • Fully-paid