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Salary: USD 172,000 - 200,000 / annual
Flock Safety is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale high-throughput backend data pipelines processing billions of daily assets in real time. You will own the design, optimization, and maintenance of critical pipeline infrastructure handling real-time asset ingestion across microservices, with a focus on distributed systems scaling and backend optimization.
Key responsibilities include architecting and scaling high-throughput backend data pipelines for real-time asset ingestion; optimizing PostgreSQL database performance, pub/sub architectures, and distributed storage systems under heavy traffic loads; leading service migrations toward Go-heavy patterns while maintaining performant TypeScript backend services; collaborating cross-functionally with Hardware, ML, Web, Mobile, and Data Science teams to design and deploy new pipeline features; and acting as a technical domain expert by conducting code reviews, mentoring peer engineers, and driving engineering best practices.
You bring deep proficiency in TypeScript backend patterns with strong capability to scale quickly in Go; demonstrated expertise designing and operating distributed systems and microservice architectures under heavy data ingestion loads; strong backend database and pub/sub experience with PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, SQS, or SNS including query optimization; practical cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized deployment workflows; and excellent cross-functional communication skills with a track record of collaborating across hardware, data science, and application engineering teams.
This is a backend-focused role centered on high-scale data processing and microservice architecture—not front-end or purely theoretical research. You will take ambiguous problems, map out concrete technical plans, and ship production-grade code while actively collaborating across adjacent engineering disciplines and mentoring junior engineers.
Flock Safety supports over 1 million criminal investigations annually and has helped locate more than 10,000 missing people. The company is 1,700 people strong with over $1B in funding, building safety technology for communities.
