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Flock Safety | full-time | Remote (USA) | Senior Software Engineer, Spatial
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software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification
Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.
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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.
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.