Staff Device SRE, Test Platform

. Flock is looking for a Staff Engineer in Device SRE to join the new Test Experience team.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaGroovyJavaJavaScriptPrometheusPythonTerraform

Key responsibilities & impact

Flock is looking for a Staff Engineer in Device SRE to join the new Test Experience team.
The team is responsible for delivering a scalable, reliable, observable, and self-service test experience for developers and testers.
The team owns the construction and maintenance of the test platform and infrastructure as a managed service, applying core SRE disciplines to ensure consistency and reliability.
Work directly with several other teams including Device SRE Developer Experience and Device SRE Release Experience.
Provide a test framework that abstracts hardware control and common services so that test developers can focus on use cases and coverage instead of hardware quirks, lab outages, and service integrations.
Design and implement advanced infrastructure practices for lab hardware such as self-healing and failover, preventing outages instead of just reacting to them.

What you’ll need

Strong and transparent communicator, good leadership skills, and comfortable leading through influence across teams with technical excellence
Excited to solve new problems in a fast-paced environment while balancing short-term and long-term needs of the business
Experience developing and testing complex software systems (preferably embedded)
Experience building and refactoring complex software platforms on which stakeholders build applications
Strong coding skills (ex: C/C++, Python, R, JS, Java, Groovy) and understanding of common algorithms
Proficiency in scripting languages (ex: Bash) to automate processes
Instrumentation, visualization, and alerting with metrics (ex: Prometheus, Grafana)
Cloud computing (ex: AWS) & distributed systems
Site Reliability Engineering (on-call, monitoring, & alerting)
Software development workflows (ex: continuous integration, test automation, branching, semantic versioning)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (ex: Ansible, Terraform)
Experience building hardware abstraction software, with an appreciation for the unique challenges in controlling physical hardware that is not production-ready

Comp & perks

Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
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. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility.
Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.
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.
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

CC++PythonRJavaScriptJavaGroovyBashinfrastructure-as-codetest automation

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipproblem-solvinginfluenceadaptability