Senior Network Security Engineer

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded.

We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Network Security Engineer to ensure the security of our foundational infrastructure, from our cloud environments to our devices and endpoints. This role will work on the Product security team and help the team to enforce robust security controls across our entire network.

At Flock, our network environment presents unique challenges, from engineering the complex, real-time connectivity for our first-responder drone fleet to implementing robust security segmentation across our cloud infrastructure. The engineer in this role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing firewalls, vpn, connectivity infrastructure, and secure network segmentation in our cloud properties. This role includes both direct client connectivity networking as well cloud related network security. This role presents the opportunity to manage network primitives as code as well as work with our device engineering teams on tricky network level challenges.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in the management of our Cloud network primitives with code forward approaches (Terraform, and scripting languages Go, Python)
• Manage Flock's firewall infrastructure in conjunction with Product Security team peers
• Help architect and build Flock's client and customer VPN infrastructure in partnership with Flock's SRE team
• Design and implement network security boundary protections for Flock's cloud environments (primarily AWS)
• Partner with team members to manage and maintain Flock's web application firewall infrastructure
• Partner with Flock hardware engineering teams to design and deploy secure networking solutions for Flock edge devices
• Automate repetitive tasks in network management to as code solutions
• Build and maintain partnerships with engineering teams to embed security in the development lifecycle
• Respond to security incidents as an SME when needed and perform root cause analysis

The Skillset

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to read, understand, and write Terraform and Cloudformation
• Ability to read, understand, and write Python, or Golang
• Ability to present complex technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Experience managing modern firewalls on cloud properties
• Experience writing standard operating procedures, system requirements and other technical documentation
• Working deep knowledge of cloud network stacks (AWS)
• Ability to conduct code and security architecture reviews
• 5+ years of experience of security or infrastructure engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience working AWS
• Working knowledge of network security
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Github, Terraform, and Jenkins
• Experience managing web application firewalls

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 Network Security Engineer at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• In the first 30 days, you'll onboard, meet key stakeholders, understand our pipeline and environment, gather feedback, and implement a quick win to build momentum on your journey.

The First 60 Days

• By the end of 60 days, you will have a mastery grasp of our current Cloud network security state and you'll begin actively managing Flock firewalls. During this period you'll also work to fully understand our boundaries and client VPN setup.

90 Days & Beyond

• By the end of 90 days, you'll lead network security projects, implement security features, be working to implement network projects you identify in the first 60, publish future state architecture documents, and contribute to security planning and documentation.

The 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.

1. Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are.

2. The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field.

3. The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day.

4. The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners.

5. The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $130,000-170,000 as well as Flock Safety 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.

The Perks

• 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: $250 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.

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 recruiting@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock Safety, 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.