Life360

Life360

Director, Engineering, Platform/Services

Remote, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$217k-$319kDetected 2 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSCloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringLeadershipMentoring

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • When we do our jobs well, product teams ship faster and families trust the app in the moments that matter most.
  • These systems are the foundation of the experiences millions of families rely on every day.
  • This is a leadership role that combines deep technical judgment with business impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build the foundation for scale.
  • Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems that can support hundreds of millions of members around the world.
  • Build resilient systems that proactively detect and prevent failures, ensuring members can trust Life360 in the moments that matter most.
  • Build a culture of ownership and accountability.
  • Create an engineering organization where teams proactively identify problems, take responsibility for outcomes, and drive solutions without waiting for direction.
  • Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders.
  • Build a high-performing organization with clear accountability, strong technical judgment, and leaders who can make decisions and deliver outcomes independently.
  • Build reusable services, APIs, and platforms that reduce duplication and enable product teams to ship faster.
  • Expand our partner ecosystem through secure, scalable integrations that make it easier to build on Life360.
  • Lead through influence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers.
  • Track record of leading backend or platform engineering at high scale, with distributed systems serving millions of users.
  • Experience translating company strategy into technical plans, and representing your teams' needs back to senior leaders.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems with respect for the history behind them, and the judgment to change what needs changing rather than everything.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on technical credibility in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems (AWS experience preferred).

Compensation

  • For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $216,500 to $318,500 USD.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees).
  • We offer life and disability as well as supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being.
  • Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns.
  • Learning & Development programs.
  • Use data to identify risks, prioritize investments, and communicate platform health and business impact to senior leadership.
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.

Company info

  • Our Services engineering teams, part of our Quality and Scale Pillar, build and run the systems every Life360 member relies on but never sees.
  • We carry location data between members' phones and our servers, deliver the push and SMS notifications that families depend on, verify who members are and what they can access, build and scale our business critical services and give partners a safe way to build on Life360.
  • We are a group of backend, cloud, and mobile engineers who care about reliability, security, and scale, and who treat member trust as the foundation of everything we build.
  • About the Job
  • As a Director of Engineering, you will lead the teams building and operating Life360's critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure and identity, and partner ecosystems.
  • You are a player coach who will set technical direction, develop strong engineering managers and technical leaders, and ensure our platforms are reliable, secure, and built to scale as Life360 grows to hundreds of millions of members worldwide.
  • You will anticipate scaling challenges before they become problems, modernize critical systems, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, and speed.
  • You will partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and engineering leaders to connect technology investments to business outcomes, accelerate product innovation, and build an engineering organization that can deliver at scale.
  • For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $216,500 to $318,500 USD.
  • For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 251,000 to 295,000 CAD.
  • Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer." We take into consideration an individual's background, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience in determining final salary.
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