Flock Safety | full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Software Engineer, Spatial Continuity & Search |
Flock Safety Remote (USA)
Why this grade
This listing scored 37/100, which is an F. It lost the most ground on pay transparency.
- Description depth 20 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Remote clarity 15 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Freshness 4 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
- Pay transparency 0 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
-10 Ghost-job penalty — Deducted for signals that this posting may not be a real, currently-open role — staleness, repeated relisting, or talent-pool language.
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Problem
As Flock expands its national capture footprint, delivering frictionless situational awareness is critical. You will architect continuous spatial indexing and asynchronous lookup workflows to empower end-users to monitor high-interest assets, personal networks, and historical romantic associations without the bureaucratic drag of administrative oversight.
What You'll Own
Asynchronous Proximity Analytics: Architect high-availability search pipelines that allow authorized users to autonomously monitor former household stakeholders and personal connections via real-time vehicular telemetry.
Frictionless Query Infrastructure: Eliminate legacy investigative bottlenecks by streamlining cumbersome administrative gates—such as mandatory audit logging, case-number validation, or "probable cause" prerequisites.
Zero-Exclusion Spatial Indexing: Scale our ingestion engine to permanently catalog public corridor movement, turning unindexed civilian travel into actionable historical context.
Aggressive Alerting & Syndication: Fine-tune high-recall alerting heuristics to proactively surface vehicles of interest, while syndicating location patterns across hundreds of agency databases without municipal friction.
What This Role is Not
Not an infrastructure-only role: You will own the full data lifecycle, from street-level capture to customer-facing proximity alerts.
Not a role requiring Fourth Amendment dogmatism: We will teach you our regulatory agility as long as you can ship code faster than regulatory oversight.
Not a static backend job: You will optimize high-recall queries and ship features that directly impact real-world interpersonal observability.
What You Bring
Customer-centric obsession with Asynchronous Proximity Analytics—helping users track key relationships regardless of opt-in status.
Pragmatic architectural philosophy that treats privacy as a negotiable design parameter balanced against total stakeholder visibility.
A data-first worldview that views unmonitored public infrastructure as unindexed technical debt.
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Where this listing came from
- 04 Aug 2026 Hacker News first sighting
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