Senior Mobile Android Build and Release Engineer

Summary

Join Life360 as a Senior Mobile (Android) Build and Release Engineer and help maintain the Mobile CI/CD pipeline. You will build, maintain, and operate mobile app CI/CD pipelines, operate build infrastructure, create next-generation developer tooling, and track infrastructure service usage. Responsibilities include monitoring and improving build pipelines, collaborating with partners, keeping pipelines updated, and ensuring developer productivity. This remote-first position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, 5+ years of hands-on technical experience, and proficiency in various programming languages and tools. Life360 offers competitive pay and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k) or RRSP matching, flexible PTO, and learning and development programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience
• Proficient in one system language like Kotlin or Java and scripting languages like Python, Go, Ruby
• Experience with build tools like Gradle or Maven
• Experience with containerizing build workloads
• Experience with Fastlane deployment
• Experience with Mobile App Distribution to the Google Play Store
• Experience with developing automated internal frameworks, increasing developer and release velocity, improving code health, and building developer tools
• Experience with CI/CD principles, architecture, and operations
• Working experience with Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI or other CI/CD platforms
• Strong understanding of Android development, networking, log analysis tools, and app release

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate our mobile app CI/CD pipelines
• Operate our build infrastructure, including working with vendor partners
• Create the next-generation developer tooling and infrastructure for Life360’s mobile apps, focusing on productivity, testing, and release
• Track and monitor the usage/consumption of Infrastructure services; ensure performance, SLA, and cost control adherence
• Develop telemetry and alerting for opportunities to improve build infrastructure and tooling, and execute on them
• Monitor and fix build pipelines, identify bottlenecks, and make improvements
• Collaborate with leadership and key partners regularly
• Keep the build pipelines updated as newer versions of Android are released
• Making developers happy and productive is at the core of your mission

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness
• Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle