[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer III @Flock

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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)

Requirements

• 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 existing Helm charts to automate and structure.

90 Days & Beyond

• Improve automation of the Aviation infrastructure.
• KR1: Contribute to the Platform Engineering efforts, building additional self-service ability to increase developer efficiency.
• KR2: Assist in building/integrating IoT management tooling (for drones, docks, radars).
• KR3: Ensure self-healing and auto scaling strategies are implemented with high availability and cost resource usage efficiency.
• KR4: Standardize and/or refactor Terraform modules.
• Participate in security reviews, remediation, and new implementations for best in class security posture and compliance.

Interview Process

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way. To check out our interview stages and how you should prepare, visit experiences on our careers page.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $140,000-$165,000 as well as 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.

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 three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, 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.

Additional Information

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 [email protected]. 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.

Flock is aware of fraudulent individuals and agencies falsely claiming to represent our company. All legitimate communication from Flock will come from an email address ending in @flocksafety.com. We do not make job offers through messaging apps, social platforms, or unauthorized third parties, and we will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you encounter suspicious outreach related to a Flock role, please report it to [email protected].