Life360 is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join us as we build the next evolution of our backend services to handle our ever-growing user base. You will be working alongside our Architecture and Product teams to move fast as we expand the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years of prior professional experience working on backend and Cloud code
• Diligent in implementing and supporting services that last outwards to a year
• Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures
• Adaptive to working on various aspects of our system for different teams
• Communicate effectively with cross-platform teammates
• Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems
• Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Create new API gateways to enable external integration (eg.Tile and JioBit)
• 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
• Mentor other developers who are trying to grow
• Build technical specs with Staff engineers
• Handle on call rotation and address live incidents
• Help Test Engineers automate validating our components

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• 401(k) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
• Flexible PTO, 13 company wide 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