Software Engineer (Site Reliability / Machine Learning)

Flock Freight is a FreightTech company that uses patented technology to move freight more efficiently, reliably, and sustainably. The company’s guaranteed terminal-free truckload service, FlockDirect, finds the best options to pool freight among billions of possible combinations, optimizing routes while finding and filling trucks’ empty spaces. Shipments stay safe in a single truck, driven by a single driver, all the way to their destination allowing shippers to only pay for the space they need and enabling carriers to earn more from every linear foot of capacity — all while slashing carbon emissions by up to 40% compared to traditional shipping methods.

Flock Freight has been a Certified B Corp since 2020, meeting high social, environmental, transparency, and accountability standards to all of our stakeholders.

Flock Freight is looking for an infrastructure software engineer early in their career who is passionate about building and operating cloud infrastructure that enables the development, deployment, and operations of modern, cloud-native applications.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Machine Learning Infrastructure (MLI) teams focus on building the cloud infrastructure itself and core software libraries that the Product Engineering organization use to ship and operate high-quality product code.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain services, command line tooling, and infrastructure that facilitate building, deployment, and operations of software workloads owned by other teams
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code representations of our cloud environment, service workloads, and jobs
• Define, standardize, and evangelize site reliability best practices and encode these practices as patterns into our software development lifecycle
• Define, standardize, and evangelize site reliability best practices that enable holistic observability of a cloud computing environment
• Participate in the full SDLC in a fast-paced, dynamic, truly agile workflow
• Apply modern, cloud-native open source tooling
  
  
  

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• Enthusiasm to tackle challenging problems - if you see something broken you can’t help but try to fix it
• Experience with or interest in learning programming languages such as Golang, Python, Kotlin, or Rust
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals such as networking, filesystems, process management, identity, and more
• Experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Nomad) and related deployment tools (ArgoCD, Spinnaker)
• Experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Helm, Chef or Puppet
• Experience managing a remote compute environment or cloud platform, particularly GCP
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring technologies like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
• Experience with end-to-end debugging, monitoring + alerting, and system performance tuning
• Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills applied within an agile development environment
  
  

Nice to Haves

• Experience with cloud-native frameworks such as:
• Envoy, Istio, and other software-defined networking stacks
• Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD)
• Google Cloud Platform’s Config Connector, Cross-plane
• Building, distributing, deploying, and monitoring gRPC services
• Understanding of modern web architectures
• Relational database administration, particularly MySQL
• FinOps and/or cloud capacity planning / forecasting
• Experience with DORA, SPACE, frameworks

Compensation

The expected  range for this position is $120,000 - $135,000 per year. This range reflects typical earning potential in this role. When determining an offer, we take into account a variety of factors that are important in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to: skill sets; experience and tenure; education and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate is based on market data. Salary bands may, in some circumstances, be adjusted to a different geographic area depending on the candidate's position and location.

In addition to salary, full-time employees are also eligible for an equity package and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Flock Freight. Our policy is that we target candidates local to one of Flock Freight’s headquarters locations: San Diego and Chicago. 

**This role is based in Encinitas, CA - No Remote Options Available**

Life & Benefits of the Flock:

• Hybrid Work Model: As an organization we value in-office collaboration, working cross-functionally, and winning together. Through scheduled in-office and work from home days, we are able to work more efficiently and collaboratively.
• 401(k) Employer Match: We know Flock may just be a stepping stone in your epic journey, but we want to be sure you’re setting your future self up for success! For that reason, we provide a 401(k) plan that offers a 4% employer match.
• Medical, Dental & Vision: Generous coverage for employees and dependents. Both HMO and PPO options provided.

Our promise to you:

Flock Freight is committed to creating an environment that’s fair and inclusive. We fill our open positions based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We value the skills of people from all backgrounds and are proud to hire, promote, and retain talent from a diverse candidate pool. Diverse perspectives are central to innovation at Flock Freight and make our team better. We're interested in your inherent abilities, not just the skills you bring from your last role - if you think you have what it takes to succeed in the role but don't check every box, please still get in touch. We'd love to start a conversation with you.

Flock Freight has zero tolerance for behavior that negatively impacts marginalized groups, including women, people of color, veterans, immigrants, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We invite people of all identities to join the Flock!