Site Reliability Engineer III, (IoT Observability)

Job Overview

Flock Safety is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III with a focus on IoT Observability. This remote work opportunity is based in the USA and offers a full-time position within the Engineering department. The compensation range is $140K – $170K, with equity offered.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve data collected from devices for monitoring fleet health.


• Improve ability to identify and root-cause issues in the fleet, including automated alarms.


• Maintain and build out dashboards that provide insight into fleet health.


• Streamline software rollout workflows and monitoring to reduce manual steps and improve response times.


• Define and build out on-call rotations for monitoring fleet health.


• Perform ad-hoc analysis of unexpected issues by analyzing data collected from the fleet.


• Participate in on-call rotations to serve as first responder for outages and general requests from stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Experience developing software for embedded systems, especially large or complex IoT/edge devices.


• Hands-on experience instrumenting metrics and telemetry directly on-device.


• Strong coding skills (C/C++, Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms.


• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python) to automate processes.


• Experience with data ingestion pipelines (telemetry from device --> cloud, batching, retries, reliability patterns).


• Data visualization & dashboarding (Grafana, Sigma).


• Broad experience with databases & logging (SQL: PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Time Series like Prometheus / DataDog).


• Cloud computing experience (AWS) and distributed systems fundamentals.


• Site Reliability Engineering experience for IoT devices (on-call, monitoring, & alerting).


• Strong grasp of software development workflows (CI/CD, test automation, semantic versioning, branching strategies).

About Flock Safety

Flock Safety 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.

Benefits

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.