Senior Software Engineer II, Backend

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 77 million monthly active users (MAU), as of November 2024,  across more than 170 countries.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). 

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above. 

About The Team

The Location Experiences team at Life360 is responsible for keeping families and extended communities connected. Our team drives engagement and retention through fast, insightful, and delightful interactions. We own the Life360 App Experience—crafting polished, location-driven features and frameworks for People, Pets, and Things—and the People Experience, delivering real-time insights that help families stay coordinated and close, even when apart. Additionally, we empower broader communities with innovative, context-based location services that enable support and interaction beyond the inner circle.

About the Job

We’re hiring a Senior 2 Back End Cloud Engineer to help power the Life360 experience, where we keep families and extended communities connected. In this role, you'll lead the design and development of robust and scalable Cloud systems in Java that are built to handle heavy loads while remaining adaptable to evolving product demands.

Working closely with mobile and web engineers, you will spearhead coordinated efforts with our Architecture and Product teams, ensuring rapid and reliable development as we expand the business. You will also collaborate with Engineering Managers, the Director of Engineering, and fellow Staff Engineers to define and execute our technical roadmap.

If you're passionate about building strong, resilient systems that drive delightful, real-time experiences for millions of users, we’d love to hear from you 

The US-based salary range for this position is $144,500-$213,000 We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary- therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

What You’ll Do

• Create new Spring Java micro services to support new product features
• Create new API gateways to enable external integration
• Horizontally scale our system to handle another 10+ billion events per day
• Monitor health, suggest improvements for and deploy your own services
• Example: Build the next generation of our event streaming architecture to handle billions of events per day storing up to trillions of events in cold storage
• Example: Build a system to support a richer dialog when checking in to a place
• Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams.
• Handle on call rotation and address live incidents

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience programming in Java, PHP, Python, or other formal programming language 
• Expert level experience managing medium to large scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts)
• Expert level experience with Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc.
• Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and running at scale (10k+ containers)
• Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience
• Proficient in multi-threaded design and implementation
• Database knowledge is a plus to have
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• 401(k) (or RRSP) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
• Flexible PTO, with 13 companywide days off throughout the year
• Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
• Free Tile Products

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference 

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity, High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!