Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Life360 as a Staff Cloud Engineer and play a pivotal role in establishing new teams in the EMEA region. This position offers the exciting opportunity to shape the foundation of a growing global engineering organization and drive impactful technical direction. You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers, collaborate with engineering managers and other staff engineers, and ensure effective communication across teams. The role requires hands-on coding support and partnering with engineering managers to onboard talent. Life360 is a remote-first company, offering a competitive compensation package and a wide range of benefits.

Requirements

• 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
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to interview and onboard top talent for the EMEA-based teams
• Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Director of Engineering, and Staff Engineers to define and execute the technical direction for various projects
• Ensure effective communication and collaboration between multiple teams across regions and time zones
• Be hands-on with writing code where needed to support teams and projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Database knowledge is a plus to have
• Ideally based out of the North America East Coast time zone to collaborate with teams across multiple regions

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