About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The Foundry team is building Life360’s partner ecosystem and developer platform - the infrastructure that allows external partners to integrate with Life360 securely and at scale. We own the full integration stack: partner-facing APIs, authentication flows, webhook receipt and delivery, and the gateway layer that decouples partner contracts from internal systems. Our goal is to turn Life360 from a single-product app into an extensible platform that partners across mobility, safety, wearables, and more can build on.

We also own critical shared infrastructure that the rest of the company depends on - NetworkKit, authentication, and environment standardization across all mobile clients. We’re a cross-platform team spanning Cloud, Android, and iOS, and we think in systems: stable API contracts, sandboxed environments, versioning policies, and operational SLAs. The developer platform we’re building is modeled on the best of Stripe, Twilio, and Squarespace - designed so that onboarding a new partner takes weeks, not months.

About the Job

Life360 is hiring an  AI-Native Backend Focused Engineer — a senior engineer who doesn’t just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You’ll be central to how the Foundry team builds its products, develops its ecosystem tooling, and how we use AI for development in the future.

You’ll design and build features and systems to help grow Life360s partner ecosystem, helping take our platform from zero to one - building out auth, system proxying, alerting and monitoring, everything.

You’ll build and evolve  our modern AI-Native engineering workflows — from how we write code, to how we run standups, to how we think about team velocity. You’ll evolve the standard others follow.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $129,000 to $192,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 149,500 to 177,500 CAD. 

Note: 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

• Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Foundry team, establishing playbooks the broader org can adopt.
• Build across the full stack as needed — shipping polished, performant, and reliable experiences to tens of millions of users.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to turn complex user problems into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase the delivery of strong outcomes — moving faster without sacrificing quality.
• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.
• Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you own.

What We’re Looking For

Technical foundation:

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot (this is our primary stack)
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar distributed streaming platforms
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and data durability
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized deployments
• Heavy user of agentic workflows, understands research-plan-implement cycle but doesn’t outsource thinking to agents

What matters most to us:

• Growth mindset - You structure problems precisely, you learn quickly, you can show interest outside “your lane”, and you are always happy to try something new
• Collaborative approach - You communicate clearly, work well across teams, and value diverse perspectives
• Ownership mentality - You take responsibility for your work from design through production and beyond
• AI-native working style - You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams rather than hand-holding one agent at a time
• Thoughtful communication - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively
• We believe culture fit and problem-solving ability matter more than checking every technical box. We're happy to help you grow into areas where you have less experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Background in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink)
• Experience with schema registries and schema evolution strategies
• Knowledge of Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud
• Understanding of CI/CD patterns, GitHub Actions, and artifact management (Maven, Nexus)
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)
• Previous work on ecosystems or integration tooling

AI-Native Expectations 

We use AI coding tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice:

• Daily use: You use AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation. Not just research or autocomplete.
• Judgment and ownership: AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR. You are accountable for everything you ship.
• Velocity: We expect senior engineers who use AI well to operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.
• Team leadership: You share what works. You automate prompting strategies that others can build on and help teammates earlier in their AI workflow adoption get up to speed.
• Continuous learning: The tooling is changing fast. You stay current and bring recommendations to the team when something would meaningfully improve how we work.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada)
• 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Flexible PTO, plus several 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

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 above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

#LI-Remote

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About the Team

The Messaging team owns the backbone of Life360's real-time infrastructure — the event streaming and data pipelines that keep millions of families connected. We process billions of events every day across location updates, safety alerts, and the push notifications that make the product feel instant.

We are a small, platform-focused, AI-native team. AI isn't a productivity add-on here — it's how we work. Every engineer on the team directs AI agents as a core part of their daily loop: scaffolding services, drafting Terraform, exploring unfamiliar codebases, writing migration scripts, and reviewing diffs. We move faster and go deeper on hard distributed systems problems because we've built the habits, prompts, and guardrails to make agentic work reliable.

Current initiatives include the MSK-to-Confluent Cloud migration, organization-wide schema registry and Protobuf governance, and the next generation of Life360's streaming services. Our stack is Kafka and Kafka Streams, Spring Boot (Java 21), Go, Protobuf/gRPC, Terraform, and AWS.

About the Job

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who has already made AI a first-class collaborator in their work. You'll design streaming services, write and review code, own production incidents, and ship infrastructure — and you'll do all of it with agents running in parallel alongside you. We're looking for an engineer who already decomposes work into agentic workflows, critiques agent output with real technical authority, and ships production code faster because of it.

You'll help shape the team's technical direction on Kafka-first streaming infrastructure and the next phase of our high-availability roadmap. You'll also help evolve how the team itself works with AI — the prompts, the evals, the review patterns, the escape hatches when agents go sideways.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate streaming services on Kafka, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Stream — directing agents to scaffold, test, and iterate, and owning the outcome end-to-end.
• Develop and manage Kafka connectors for data integration (DynamoDB, S3, NSQ, custom sinks/sources) and the SMT chains that keep them honest.
• Own schema management and evolution across Protobuf, Schema Registry, and multi-language code generation — including the Gradle/Nexus publishing pipelines that back it.
• Drive platform migrations (MSK → Confluent Cloud, NSQ → Kafka) including dual-cluster consumer patterns, VPC peering, and cutover playbooks.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (DataDog, PagerDuty, Prometheus) that catch problems before pages fire.
• Write infrastructure as code in Terraform, ship it through CI/CD, and participate in the on-call rotation and incident response for the services you own.
• Work AI-natively as the default mode of operation. Run multiple agents in parallel. Write prompts with real context and constraints. Review every diff like you wrote it yourself. Know when to throw the agent's output out and do it by hand.
• Evolve the team's AI-native practices — prompt libraries, evals, review rituals, and the guardrails that make all of it safe at production scale.
• Mentor teammates, raise the bar on technical standards, and contribute to the team's API design, data contracts, and integration patterns.

Compensation

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $148,000 to $216,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range is 171,500 to $201,000 CAD. 

Note: 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 We're Looking For

Technical foundation

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot — this is our primary stack and you should be comfortable reading, writing, and debugging it without assistance.
• Production experience with Apache Kafka or a comparable distributed streaming platform (Pulsar, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, delivery semantics, and data durability tradeoffs.
• Comfortable with AWS (or equivalent cloud) and containerized deployments on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable IaC for real, multi-environment infrastructure.

AI-native working style

Specifically, we're looking for:

• Prompting excellence — you give agents context, constraints, and expected outcomes. You don't type "do X" and hope.
• Critical validation — you can explain every line the agent wrote, identify where it succeeded and where it fell short, and correct it. You treat AI output as a draft from a smart junior, not an oracle.
• Agentic decomposition — you break ambiguous problems into discrete, verifiable sub-tasks that an agent can actually execute, rather than handing it a blob of intent.
• Parallel workstreams — you run multiple agents or sessions concurrently on independent tasks instead of hand-holding one at a time.
• Troubleshooting with AI, not around it — when an agent hallucinates an API, suggests a deprecated library, or produces code that compiles but is wrong, you diagnose and recover. The interview is designed so things will go wrong; how you get unstuck is a signal.
• Technical authority — you understand the underlying tech (Kafka internals, Protobuf wire format, JDBC, SASL_SSL auth, partitioning semantics) well enough to catch the agent when it's confidently wrong.

What matters most to us

• Problem-solving mindset — you structure ambiguous problems precisely before reaching for a tool, AI or otherwise.
• Ownership — you take a feature from design through production and through the 3 a.m. page that follows.
• Direct, respectful communication — you can explain technical tradeoffs clearly, push back when you disagree, and change your mind when the evidence changes.
• Collaborative — you work well across teams and value perspectives that aren't your own.

Nice-to-have

• Go experience (we use it for CLI tools and some services).
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production, including schema evolution strategies.
• Stream processing frameworks — Kafka Streams, Flink (SQL or DataStream).
• Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud specifics (Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB, Stream Governance).
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions, artifact management (Maven, Nexus).
• Observability tooling — DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Prior experience on large-scale platform migrations or infrastructure modernization programs.
• Building or running evals for LLM-based workflows, prompt libraries, or agent tooling at your current or previous team.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). Supplemental medical and dental plans 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.

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!

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About the Devices Cloud Team

The Devices Cloud team owns the backend services that power Life360's fleet of connected hardware — Tile trackers, Jiobit wearables, Pet GPS trackers, and emerging device categories. We manage real-time device state, high-frequency telemetry ingest, and the cloud infrastructure that translates physical-world signals into reliable, family-facing experiences. Our work sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, mobile, and platform — and runs at a scale where correctness and reliability aren't optional.

We are an AI-Native team. AI isn't an add-on to how we work — it's how we work. We've redesigned our development workflows around AI, using it as a first-class collaborator at every stage: spec writing, code generation, test authoring, incident triage, and system design. We ship faster and go deeper because of it. We're looking for engineers who want to help define what AI-native backend development looks like for complex, hardware-connected systems.

About the Job

As a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer on the Devices Cloud team, you will own the technical direction of the cloud systems that power Life360's connected hardware — Tile trackers, Jiobit wearables, and emerging device categories. This is a systems-level leadership role: you are the recognized technical authority for our device cloud infrastructure, spanning real-time state management, high-frequency telemetry ingest, and the integration layer that connects physical hardware to family-facing experiences.

At this level, your work extends well beyond implementation. You set technical direction, define architectural standards, mentor Staff and Senior engineers, and partner with engineering and product leadership to align the technical roadmap with company goals. You operate across teams and functional groups — influencing firmware, mobile, platform, and data teams — and your decisions shape systems serving tens of millions of families daily.

You are also a leader in AI-native engineering. You don't just use AI — you define how it should be used. You architect agent-driven workflows, codify practices that multiply team output, and partner with engineering leadership to spread these patterns across the broader organization.

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 is 251,000 to $295,000 CAD. Note: 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

• Own the technical architecture and long-term roadmap for Devices Cloud systems — device connectivity, telemetry ingest, state management, command/control, and data pipelines — ensuring they are scalable, secure, and resilient at Life360's scale.
• Define and drive system-level technical direction across multiple teams, identifying architectural trade-offs, resolving cross-team design conflicts, and aligning engineering efforts with company strategy.
• Lead AI-native engineering practices for Devices Cloud: architect agentic workflows, codify patterns for AI-assisted spec writing, code generation, test coverage, and incident response — and partner with org leadership to extend these playbooks broadly.
• Partner with firmware, mobile, product, and platform teams to define APIs, integration standards, and device-driven workflows that translate cleanly across the hardware-software boundary.
• Drive the architecture and delivery of large-scale, cross-team initiatives — from conception through production — managing dependencies, unblocking teams, and maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Anticipate system bottlenecks, failure modes, and security risks before they materialize; define safeguards and engineering standards that prevent class-of-problem recurrences.
• Mentor and grow Staff and Senior engineers across the team: provide architectural guidance, conduct high-quality technical reviews, and act as a force multiplier for team output.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to influence organizational priorities, advocate for technical investments, and communicate technical strategy to executive stakeholders.
• Represent the team in cross-functional forums; produce clear, concise architectural documentation and roadmap artifacts accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead high-severity incident response, including post-mortems and systemic remediation.

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend or cloud infrastructure systems — with a strong preference for IoT, telematics, or hardware-adjacent domains.
• Demonstrated track record of setting technical direction across teams, driving architectural decisions, and aligning engineering roadmaps with business goals.
• Deep expertise with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS: EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, etc.), distributed systems design, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows — not just prompt engineering, but architecting multi-agent systems, managing context, and building AI-native development practices at a team or org level.
• Proven ability to mentor Staff and Senior engineers, elevate team-wide engineering standards, and drive cultural change through influence rather than authority.
• Exceptional communication skills: able to distill complex architectural concepts for diverse audiences, from junior engineers to executive leadership.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities across groups, and lead through influence in a cross-functional environment.
• Experience with high-frequency ingest systems, time-series data, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with IoT, telematics, embedded, or firmware-adjacent systems.
• Background in SRE practices, reliability engineering, and progressive delivery.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog).
• Experience contributing to industry conversations: open-source projects, conference talks, or technical publications.
• Knowledge of hardware/firmware communication protocols (MQTT, BLE, CoAP, etc.).

AI-Native Expectations 

We use AI coding tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice:

• Daily use: You use AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation. Not just research or autocomplete.
• Judgment and ownership: AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR. You are accountable for everything you ship.
• Velocity: We expect senior engineers who use AI well to operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.
• Team leadership: You share what works. You automate prompting strategies that others can build on and help teammates earlier in their AI workflow adoption get up to speed.
• Continuous learning: The tooling is changing fast. You stay current and bring recommendations to the team when something would meaningfully improve how we work.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada)
• 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Flexible PTO, plus several 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

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 above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

#LI-Remote

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About the Devices Cloud Team

The Devices Cloud team owns the backend services that power Life360's fleet of connected hardware — Tile trackers, Jiobit wearables, and emerging device categories. We manage real-time device state, high-frequency telemetry ingest, and the cloud infrastructure that translates physical-world signals into reliable, family-facing experiences. Our work sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, mobile, and platform — and runs at a scale where correctness and reliability aren't optional.

We are an AI-Native team. AI isn't an add-on to how we work — it's how we work. We've redesigned our development workflows around AI, using it as a first-class collaborator at every stage: spec writing, code generation, test authoring, incident triage, and system design. We ship faster and go deeper because of it. We're looking for engineers who want to help define what AI-native backend development looks like for complex, hardware-connected systems.

About the Job

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Devices Cloud team, you'll build and operate the cloud services that power Life360's connected devices. This role sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and mobile — translating real-world device signals into reliable, scalable backend systems.

You don't just use AI tools. You think natively in them. Your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews. You'll help establish and evolve AI-native engineering practices for the Devices Cloud team — playbooks the broader org can adopt — while delivering backend systems that serve millions of families daily.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $148,000 to $216,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range is 171,500 to 201,000 CAD. Note: 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

• Design, build, and maintain backend services for device connectivity, telemetry ingest, health monitoring, and command/control operations — using AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator in your daily development workflow.
• Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase delivery velocity without sacrificing quality: from generating service scaffolding, to writing and validating test coverage, to triage and root cause analysis during incidents.
• Help define and codify AI-native engineering practices for the Devices Cloud team — establishing patterns the broader org can adopt.
• Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to define APIs and workflows for device-driven features.
• Build and own data pipelines for high-throughput telemetry streams using Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Deliver scalable, resilient microservices on AWS (EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, etc.).
• Instrument services for observability, reliability, and SLO compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotation and live incident response.
• Write clean, testable, performant code; contribute to CI/CD automation and improve team-wide engineering standards.
• Mentor teammates and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering culture.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience building and operating high-quality backend services in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs — not just autocomplete, but as a genuine development partner.
• Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• A track record of using AI tooling to multiply your own output — faster specs, better test coverage, cleaner code, faster debugging.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and distributed systems.
• Solid skills with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), container orchestration, and production deployments.
• Experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL), caching, and event/streaming systems.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and articulate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• A genuine drive to define what AI-native looks like for complex, hardware-connected systems — you're not waiting for the playbook, you want to write it.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with IoT, telematics, or embedded/hardware-adjacent systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, or other high-throughput streaming platforms.
• Experience with high-frequency ingest systems and time-series data.
• Background with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog).
• Knowledge of SRE practices and automated testing frameworks.

AI-Native Expectations 

We use AI coding tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice:

• Daily use: You use AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation. Not just research or autocomplete.
• Judgment and ownership: AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR. You are accountable for everything you ship.
• Velocity: We expect senior engineers who use AI well to operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.
• Team leadership: You share what works. You automate prompting strategies that others can build on and help teammates earlier in their AI workflow adoption get up to speed.
• Continuous learning: The tooling is changing fast. You stay current and bring recommendations to the team when something would meaningfully improve how we work.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada)
• 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Flexible PTO, plus several 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

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 above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

#LI-Remote

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The Finance Data Team sits at the intersection of Finance & Accounting teams and Life360’s data. We provide the data ingestion / processing / reporting / egress needed by our partner teams in Finance & Accounting to enable their work and ensure SOX compliance with rigor. We push the envelope on how work is done through implementation of AI tools and capabilities to enhance our own pace of development and capabilities that we deliver to our stakeholders.

We are hiring a bar-raising Staff Data Engineer to drive our ingress / egress capabilities and build cross-cutting capabilities to drive developer experience and security. This role requires someone who can step into ambiguity, make sound architectural decisions, eliminate operational fragility, and establish an engineering discipline that others adopt.

You will serve as a technical reference point - shaping standards, influencing cross-team architecture, and driving initiatives to clear, production-ready outcomes. We value engineers who are direct, collaborative, and proactive in surfacing risks early, while helping build a team culture where high standards and psychological safety coexist.

About the Job

The Life360 Finance Data Team works as the integrator for numerous systems - bringing data into the Finance Data Warehouse, transforming it, and pushing it to its relevant destinations (reporting, data asset deliverables, tools, etc).  To support our role we are continuously building and enhancing our system - adding new data, new transformations, and new tooling to improve developer velocity and ‘buy down’ overhead costs associated with maintaining our system.

As a Staff Data Engineer you will drive forward the:

• Data ingestion suite - a mix of capabilities ranging from Fivetran to completely custom connectors that bring data into our warehouse and monitor for data quality.
• Data transformation suite - enhancing our dbt environment (dbt core) and the suite of tools that we leverage to build data models, semantic models, and other interfaces.
• Data egress suite - a mix of capabilities that allow us to push data to its end destinations.
• CI/CD pipelines and other tools / capabilities to enhance the developer experience and velocity.
• Infrastructure and networking behind our warehouse and related connectors.
• Databricks configuration and capabilities.
• Security posture and access controls.

The ideal candidate:

• They have spent years building out data platforms / infrastructure as well as creating ingress / egress data frameworks that are used in pipelines.  They have tackled numerous challenges and found novel solutions to problems for data ingestion, processing, and egress.
• They have learned how to leverage LLMs for development velocity and analytics - not just asking it to write the code but leveraging the tools to support their development under clear guidance and accepts ownership of the work produced as their own.
• They have learned to think about scalability / velocity / experience of future development and not just shipping the current project.
• They are part software engineer, part data integration engineer, and part data platform engineer.
• They adhere to the controls / procedures / separation of duties necessary to maintain our SOX compliance.

We are looking for someone with strong engineering depth who demonstrates ownership, decisiveness, and the ability to elevate both the system and the team around them.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $190,000 to $280,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $220,000 to $260,000 CAD. 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.

AI / LLM Usage

The Finance Data Team leverages LLM’s to support code generation, analysis, and other use cases.

• Cursor / Claude Code.
• Other tools (Wispr Flow, Claude & Claude Cowork, Gemini / Codex).

Your experience with AI / LLM usage should include managing code generation with a close eye on quality, standards, and testing - owning the outputs as your own.  Your work with and ability to leverage these tools will drive your velocity and ability to effectively work within our environment.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and evolve scalable data ingestion and egress frameworks and pipelines that are well tested and offer strong data quality monitoring. 
• Architect and evolve our CI/CD processes - enhancing the testing environment and observability (such as building LLM-driven reviews with context awareness through data diffing, lineage analysis / downstream impact analysis, and general context).
• Architect delivery architecture of data assets to external team partners to reduce manual operational overhead associated with month end close.
• Enhance our Claude Code / LLM development support capabilities - creating tools / skills / agents that give our LLMs more context and help us continually improve their abilities to debug, create code, and maintain systems.
• Enhance our security posture in our AWS / Databricks environment.
• Design and implement distributed data processing systems using Spark and Databricks on AWS.
• Establish clear ingestion and integration boundaries that eliminate single points of failure.
• Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs before they impact delivery.
• Produce clear technical artifacts and recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.
• Design logical and physical data models balancing flexibility, performance, governance, and scalability.
• Partner closely with the Analytics Engineers on the Finance Data Team to support high-quality downstream data modeling & reporting.
• Harden pipelines with monitoring, alerting, SLAs, and recovery mechanisms.
• Mentor engineers and elevate distributed systems rigor across the team.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years designing and operating high-volume distributed data systems in production.
• Deep expertise with a cloud data platform (Databricks strongly preferred) and AWS from an infrastructure / services architecture, deployment, and ownership perspective.
• Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and Spark for large-scale processing.
• Strong proficiency with modern CI/CD practices (creating GitHub Actions, writing Terraform code to manage infrastructure in Databricks / Airflow / AWS / and others).
• Hands-on experience with dbt from an infrastructure / deployment perspective and understanding of how platform decisions impact downstream modeling.
• Strong grasp of data modeling, partitioning strategies, storage formats, and analytical workload optimization.
• Experience with Airflow and data flow orchestration.
• Experience with networking challenges in data ingestion (e.g., VPC peering, firewall traversal, API rate limiting, cross-AWS account access, etc.)
• Able to effectively leverage / oversee LLM-supported code development while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Demonstrated experience with AI tools to support / enhance development - Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to independently scope ambiguous problems and drive them to decisive outcomes.
• Track record of proactively escalating risks and closing long-running efforts with clear recommendations.
• Experience defining ingestion validation standards and implementing data quality controls.
• Proven ability to reduce operational fragility and eliminate single points of failure.
• Strong systems design skills across distributed and event-based architectures.
• Demonstrated technical leadership influencing cross-team architectural decisions.
• Excellent communication skills across engineering, analytics, product, and executive stakeholders.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

Our 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.

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 creates a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications above, you should still seriously consider applying!

#LI-Remote

____________________________________________________________________________

About Life360 

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About the Job

The Life360 Creative Team is at a defining moment.

We’re evolving from a single product brand into a connected ecosystem spanning software, hardware, and real-world experiences. That evolution demands more than consistency — it demands taste, clarity, and a strong creative point of view.

We’re hiring a Senior Brand Designer to help shape, strengthen, and express the Life360 brand system as it scales across product surfaces, marketing, campaigns, retail, packaging, and physical environments. This role is for designers who understands that great brand work starts with strong systems — and comes alive through thoughtful execution and cultural relevance.

As a Senior Brand Designer, you’ll report directly to the Design Director and operate as a highly independent individual contributor. You’ll own meaningful creative work from early concept through final execution, and you’ll be trusted to bring opinions, not just options. Your work will help define how Life360 shows up everywhere — in-app, in feeds, in campaigns, in the world.

This is a hands-on, design-forward role for someone who cares deeply about craft, thinks systematically, and understands how brand, product, and marketing intersect. While brand systems are core to this role, you’ll also contribute to distinct campaigns, launches, and high-visibility moments where the brand is tested, stretched, and expressed in new ways.

You will do work that will define the next chapter of Life360 — work that scales cleanly, feels intentional, and stands confidently alongside the best consumer brands in the world. If you want to make the best creative of your career, push yourself alongside other driven designers, and help shape a globally recognized brand from the inside, let’s talk.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $91,000 to $130,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 105,000 to 123,000 CAD. 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

• Set and uphold a high creative bar. Bring strong taste, clarity, and design thinking that elevates the quality and consistency of our brand.
• Build and evolve the brand system. Strengthen Life360’s visual foundations, design kits, and patterns so the brand scales across product, marketing, hardware, retail, and new channels.
• Own work end to end. Lead projects from early concept through final execution, navigating ambiguity with confidence and accountability.
• Design across mediums. Create thoughtful, high-quality brand work spanning digital, social, paid media, product launches, packaging, retail, and real-world experiences.
• Balance systems and expression. Ensure consistency without stagnation — using design systems as a springboard, not a constraint.
• Think beyond the brief. Challenge assumptions, push past obvious solutions, and look for sharper, more intentional ways to communicate.
• Collaborate deeply. Partner with designers, copywriters, marketers, product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to turn strategy into compelling creative.
• Present with conviction. Clearly articulate your ideas, explain design decisions, and advocate for strong creative while remaining open to feedback.
• Raise the team. Contribute meaningfully to critiques and working sessions, helping improve not just the work — but how the work gets made.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in brand design, ideally across agency and/or B2C in-house teams
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong design thinking, not just visuals — systems, concepts, and polished execution working together
• Proven experience building or contributing to brand systems that scale across multiple channels
• Fluency in how brand, product, and marketing intersect — and why that matters
• Strong sense of taste across typography, layout, color, composition, and visual storytelling
• Comfort owning work independently while collaborating closely with creative leadership and partners
• Ability to present work clearly, defend decisions thoughtfully, and incorporate feedback without losing your point of view
• Highly collaborative, curious, and motivated to push the work — and yourself — forward

Skills:

• Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects is a plus)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Entrepreneurial, team-oriented mindset
• Problem solver with minimal hand-holding
• Eagle eye for alignment, consistency, and craft

Our 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 Weeklong 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!

#LI-Remote

____________________________________________________________________________

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The AI Lab is a small, founder-led team operating like a zero-to-one startup inside Life360, building the company’s next chapter. Our mission is to transform Life360 from the app you open to find your family into an intelligent operating system families rely on daily. We design and build an AI-powered layer on top of our family graph, leveraging our core location technologies and global 100 million-user base to proactively surface what matters across location, schedules, and everyday life.

About the Job

Your role is owning how Life360's deterministic backend (location data, the family graph, behavioral signals, user insights) pairs with the probabilistic world of LLMs. You decide how those two sides talk to each other, and you make sure the seams don't show.

You own the inference pipeline end to end: model selection, serving infrastructure, evaluation loops, prompt and context strategy, and the cloud services that keep it all running in production. You make the tradeoffs between latency, cost, and quality. You build the eval harness that tells us whether the system is actually getting better, not just feeling different. If you do this job right, the product feels seamless to users, the data stays safe, and inference costs don't run away from us. You are a cloud engineer who is deeply fluent in how AI systems actually work in production. 

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $190,000 to $280,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $220,000 to $260,000 CAD. Note: 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 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

• Architect the inference pipeline that turns Life360 into a context layer LLMs can reason over: soul files, family context, behavioral signals, document understanding.
• Choose models. Choose hosting. Decide what is self-hosted, API-based, fine-tuned, or prompt-engineered. Revisit those decisions as the landscape changes.
• Build the serving infrastructure. Latency budgets, batching, caching, fallbacks, graceful degradation. Make it run at scale before scale gets here.
• Build the eval loop. Know whether changes make the product better or worse, not just whether the demo works. This is the difference between a real product and a magic trick.
• Own the cost model. Track spend per user, per feature, per family. Find the levers (context compression, model routing, pre-computation) that keep unit economics working from a test group to millions.
• Define what gets persisted, what gets summarized, and what gets thrown away. The architecture decision of "what does our data look like to an LLM" lives with you.
• Set the bar for safety, privacy, and trust at the infrastructure layer. Sensitive categories filtered before they propagate. Encryption, access controls, audit trails built in, not bolted on.

What We’re Looking For

If there's one trait we need above all others, it's self-starter energy. As we've gotten bigger, we've been more open to roles with clearly defined schedules and processes. That doesn't work in a startup. We need people on founder hours, not office hours — with a huge desire to win. You'll be a cofounder of this initiative.

• You operate without a spec. You'd rather have a conversation, a sketch, and 24 hours than a 30-page PRD and a week.
• You ship every day. Not "make progress." Ship. Even rough. Even ugly. Momentum matters more than polish at this stage.
• You push for more. You won't wait to be told what to do. You demand excellence of yourself and the people around you.
• You hold strong opinions and change them when the evidence moves. You push back. You concede fast when wrong.
• You're a customer of what we build. Try it if you haven't.

The bar

• Deep engineering experience, with significant time spent building and running AI systems in production at meaningful scale. Real users, real load, real on-call.
• Fluent in modern LLM serving (vLLM, TGI, SGLang, hosted APIs — whatever's right for the job). No religion about it.
• You think in evals. You've built harnesses. You know the difference between vibes-based iteration and real progress because you've felt the pain of not having one.
• You can build a cloud system from the ground up. Pick the services, wire them together, make them reliable, keep the bill in check.
• Strong opinions about cost. You've seen inference bills run out of control and have instincts for where the leaks come from.
• AI-native in your daily workflow. Hands-on with Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent. You think natively in agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, MCP / function calling.
• Comfortable deciding with incomplete information. The spec will be a moving target. You don't need it to settle before you start building.
• Strong written communication. You write specs, decision records, and playbooks that an agent (and a human) can act on precisely.
• Experience with agent systems, retrieval pipelines, or long-context personalization.
• Privacy architecture experience in multi-user systems where context is shared across people with different rights to see it.
• You've built something where the data itself was the moat — and you understand why that's different from building on public data.

Our 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.

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 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!

#LI-Remote

____________________________________________________________________________

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The AI Lab is a small, founder-led team operating like a zero-to-one startup inside Life360, building the company’s next chapter. Our mission is to transform Life360 from the app you open to find your family into an intelligent operating system families rely on daily. We design and build an AI-powered layer on top of our family graph, leveraging our core location technologies and global 100 million-user base to proactively surface what matters across location, schedules, and everyday life.

About the Job

This role is hard to title because the lines between engineering, design, and product blur fast when you are building the way we are building. The closest description is design-oriented builder. You have a strong aesthetic sense and real opinions about how a product should feel. You can take a loose idea and make it tangible before anyone has finished writing the spec. You understand the value of a polished user experience in the context of agentic software and how to deliver one.

You work directly with design, product, and the founder. You are part of the creative process, not downstream of it. The work is not "here is a Figma, build it." The work is "here is a rough idea, what does the first working version look like by the end of day, and what do we learn when we put it in front of someone."

You thrive without traditional specs and get real energy out of shipping something new every day. Energy and momentum matter as much as skill.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $190,000 to $280,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $220,000 to $260,000 CAD. Note: 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 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

• Take rough ideas (sketches, voice memos, half-finished docs) and turn them into something real and clickable, fast. The first version is usually the same day.
• Build prototypes for the surfaces that make the product tangible: the map, widgets, Live Activities, voice, in-app moments where information surfaces automatically. Some will ship. Most will get thrown away. Both outcomes are useful.
• Make tasteful UI calls without waiting for design to spec every pixel. Design refines. You get it 80% there.
• Sit in the room when product direction gets debated. Push back when something doesn't feel right. We need engineers who are part of the conversation, not waiting for the output.
• Use AI tooling aggressively. Orchestrate agents to generate code, write tests, and review your work. The whole point of this team is that a small group with the right tools outperforms a much larger one.
• Ship to test groups, watch how people actually use what you built, iterate. The feedback loop is short and you are inside it.

What We’re Looking For

If there's one trait we need above all others, it's self-starter energy. As we've gotten bigger, we've been more open to roles with clearly defined schedules and processes. That doesn't work in a startup. We need people on founder hours, not office hours — with a huge desire to win. You'll be a cofounder of this initiative.

• You operate without a spec. You'd rather have a conversation, a sketch, and 24 hours than a 30-page PRD and a week.
• You ship every day (or close to it). Not "make progress." Ship. Even rough. Even ugly. Momentum matters more than polish at this stage. You're comfortable showing it before it's ready and letting it get torn apart in service of getting to the right thing.
• You push for more. You won't wait to be told what to do. You demand excellence of yourself and the people around you.
• You hold strong opinions and change them when the evidence moves. You push back. You concede fast when wrong.
• You're a customer of what we build. Try it if you haven't.

The bar

• Deep experience building consumer mobile or web products that real people use. You know what good feels like on a phone, and you know how it fails.
• Zero-to-one stage experience and the desire to do it again.
• Taste. You can articulate why one design works and another doesn't. You have references. You notice details other people miss.
• You can move from a blank screen to a working prototype without anyone holding your hand. Specs make you slower, not faster.
• Deep in at least one of React, Swift, or Kotlin — and comfortable shipping in another. You don't treat the platform as someone else's problem.
• AI-native in your daily workflow. Hands-on with Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent. Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, MCP / function calling.

Bonus

• Map-based or location-driven product work. You understand the design problems unique to spatial UI.

Our 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.

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 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!

#LI-Remote

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About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

Life360 serves 95M+ monthly active members across every life stage, every time zone, and every type of relationship. Each member opens the app for a different reason: parents checking a teenager's commute, a partner tracking an ETA, a grandparent staying connected to family across the country. The opportunity is to make the experience each of them sees actually reflect that—personalized, contextual, and relevant to their family in that moment.

The Product Builder, Orchestration is the product voice behind the system that makes that personalization real. It decides in real time what each member sees when they open Life360 based on all available signals and meeting what the moment demands. That system is the Orchestrator, and building it is one of the most consequential opportunities at Life360 in 2026

About the Job

You'll be a core contributor to the Orchestrator layer—the real-time, contextual decisioning system that assembles Life360's interface dynamically for each member and each session. This is the personalization layer that determines which components surface and in what order, drawing on signals from the real world, past behaviors, family context, member history, and content and intelligence from partner teams across the company who all need representation in a constrained surface area. You're joining a focused team with work already underway, and your job is to accelerate and shape where it goes.

The technical challenge is real: building a modular, algorithmic content layer with a unified member data model, feedback loops, and measurable outcomes. The organizational challenge is equally real. Teams across Life360 will need to align around a shared model, contribute their intelligence and content to a common platform, and trust th at the system serves the company's shared goals and the member in equal measure. Building that buy-in is core to this role.

The US-based salary range for this position is $178,500 to $261,500. The Canada-based salary range for this position is 207k - 242k CAD. 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

• Orchestrator system design and roadmap. Partnering with engineering, design, and data science to shape the real-time layer that decides what each member sees—per session, per context—based on who they are and what their family is doing right now.
• Measurement framework. Working with stakeholders across the business to define and align on the north star metric, driver metrics, and objective function that guide every decisioning tradeoff the Orchestrator makes—and ensuring that framework can evolve as business context changes. This is the shared language that keeps the organization and the system optimizing for the same outcomes.
• Content ingestion architecture. Working with partner teams across the company to define how they contribute to the Orchestrator without competing for fixed placements—and helping drive the alignment that makes a shared model stick.
• Member context model. Collaborating with data science, engineering, and partner teams to define the signals and profile data that power real-time decisioning: time of day, location context, family state, behavioral history.
• Delivery surfaces and content templates. Working within Life360's existing in-app UI patterns to ensure the Orchestrator can deliver content effectively across the surfaces already built—and flagging gaps where new templates or surfaces are needed to unlock the next layer of personalization.
• Feedback loops. Contributing to how engagement and display data flows back to upstream systems to improve decisioning over time.
• Stakeholder operating model. Helping translate competing team priorities into weighted inputs to a shared system—and serving as an educator and evangelist to partner teams on what the Orchestrator is, what it can do, and how to build with it.

What We’re Looking For

Systems depth

• You've built—or redesigned—a personalization or content orchestration system before, not just shipped features on top of one. You understand ML-driven content ranking, modular UI architecture, and what it means to replace fixed placement logic with algorithmic decisioning. You can talk fluently about signals, weights, feedback loops, and what "good" looks like when you can't directly observe every individual decision the system makes.

Organizational muscle

• You've worked on a surface that had become a resource allocation problem and helped fix it. You know what it feels like when a stakeholder tells you their campaign needs the top slot because of a deal they've struck—and you know how to move that conversation from ownership to user value without losing the relationship. You help build shared mental models before the team builds systems. Alignment doesn't happen in one meeting, and you don't expect it to.

AI-native — hard requirement

• Life360 is an AI-native company. That means entire workflows managed by semi-autonomous systems, with humans setting direction and intervening at the decision points that require judgment. This role operates in that model—not as an aspiration, but as a baseline.
• You direct AI-driven execution across the full product development lifecycle. Research synthesis, spec drafting, experiment analysis, and status reporting run autonomously. Your time goes to strategy, user insight, stakeholder alignment, and building the reusable workflows that compound over time. You're comfortable operating across functional boundaries, think in outcomes, and treat every successful AI workflow as infrastructure for the next one.

Vision instinct

• You don't just execute a roadmap—you have a point of view on where this is going. You can hold the technical detail of content ingestion architecture in one hand and a magical end user experience in the other, and make decisions that serve both. You've driven at least one initiative per year that produced material, company-level impact—not a 2% lift, but a result that changed the shape of a core metric.

What Success Looks Like

3 months

• A shared mental model of the Orchestrator—what it is, what it optimizes for, what it isn't—is established across partner teams company-wide. That includes alignment on the measurement framework: the north star metric, driver metrics, and how the objective function can evolve as business context changes. This clarity is the foundation for both the organization and the systems to optimize for the same outcomes. The first modular content layer is in production, with server-side configurability enabling audience-targeted experiences on at least one core surface.

6 months

• The Orchestrator is a functioning system with measurable lift in L5+ engagement and action rate on delivered content. Content from multiple upstream teams flows through a unified ingestion model. The feedback loop to the Composer lifecycle layer is operational and actively improving decisioning.

1 year

• No two members see the same Life360. The Orchestrator is the platform layer that makes Family AI real at the interface level—assembling a contextually relevant experience for every member, every session, without anyone having to navigate to find it.

Our 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 Weeklong 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!

#LI-Remote

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About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The Foundry team is building Life360’s partner ecosystem and developer platform - the infrastructure that allows external partners to integrate with Life360 securely and at scale. We own the full integration stack: partner-facing APIs, authentication flows, webhook receipt and delivery, and the gateway layer that decouples partner contracts from internal systems. Our goal is to turn Life360 from a single-product app into an extensible platform that partners across mobility, safety, wearables, and more can build on.

We also own critical shared infrastructure that the rest of the company depends on - NetworkKit, authentication, and environment standardization across all mobile clients. We’re a cross-platform team spanning Cloud, Android, and iOS, and we think in systems: stable API contracts, sandboxed environments, versioning policies, and operational SLAs. The developer platform we’re building is modeled on the best of Stripe, Twilio, and Squarespace - designed so that onboarding a new partner takes weeks, not months.

About the Job

Life360 is hiring an  AI-Native Mobile Focused Engineer — an engineer who doesn’t just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You’ll be central to how the Foundry team builds its products, develops its ecosystem tooling, and how we use AI for development in the future.

You’ll design and build features that serve some of our most important and fastest-growing member segments: aging parents who want to stay safely connected with their families, pre-teens with wearables taking their first steps toward independence, sports teams that need real-time coordination, and school communities simplifying carpool logistics.

You’ll build and evolve  our modern AI-Native engineering workflows — from how we write code, to how we run standups, to how we think about team velocity. You’ll evolve the standard others follow.

Mobile experience is strongly preferred (iOS or Android), though exceptional full-stack or backend engineers are also encouraged to apply.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $118,000 to $161,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 136,500 to 149,500 CAD. 

Note: 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

• Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Foundry team, establishing playbooks the broader org can adopt.
• Build across the full stack as needed — shipping polished, performant, and reliable experiences to tens of millions of users.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to turn complex user problems into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase the delivery of strong outcomes — moving faster without sacrificing quality.
• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.
• Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you own.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience building high-quality, consumer-scale software products.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in mobile development (iOS or Android) — you know what great mobile UX feels like and how to build it. Web and backend experience (Java, Kubernetes, AWS) are valued alternatives.
• Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• A track record of using AI tooling to multiply your own output — not just as autocomplete, but as a genuine development partner.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills — you work well with product, design, and platform engineers.
• A genuine excitement for defining what it means to be AI-Native — you’re not waiting for the playbook, you want to write it.
• Empathy for the humans behind the product — an aging parent trying to stay independent, a parent tracking their pre-teen, a coach wrangling 20 families on game day.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

AI-Native Expectations 

We use AI coding tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice:

• Daily use: You use AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation. Not just research or autocomplete.
• Judgment and ownership: AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR. You are accountable for everything you ship.
• Velocity: We expect senior engineers who use AI well to operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.
• Team leadership: You share what works. You automate prompting strategies that others can build on and help teammates earlier in their AI workflow adoption get up to speed.
• Continuous learning: The tooling is changing fast. You stay current and bring recommendations to the team when something would meaningfully improve how we work.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada)
• 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Flexible PTO, plus several 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

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 above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

#LI-Remote

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The Experiences Department is responsible for the core member experience that defines how families use Life360 every day. Our teams build the surfaces and systems that answer essential questions like: How is my family right now? How do we stay coordinated and connected? Where has my family been? We create the foundations and interactions that support real-time awareness, history, communication, insights, and everyday family coordination.

Our 2026 focus is to deliver a fast, cohesive, and emotionally resonant free user experience that reflects the company’s long-term Magic of Location vision. We partner closely with Design, Product, and engineering teams across Location Platform, Intelligence, and Cloud to bring this vision to life at scale.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Engineering for Experiences and operates horizontally across all teams within Experiences. You will help unify across the department and ensure we build toward a consistent, high-quality vision.

About the Job

This role sits horizontally across Experiences, not inside one team. The job is making sure what we build across Maps, Realtime, Feed, Notifications, and History actually fits together into something coherent. Right now that's not always the case and it's costing us.

The core product journeys are the focus: where is my family, how do we stay connected, where have we been. These are what 91M monthly users interact with every time they open the app. The technical and experiential decisions made here have real reach.

We need someone who operates as an owner. That means shaping what gets built, not waiting for a spec. Influencing product and design direction, writing the technical framing for how we sequence work, seeing how the pieces add up (or don't). There's a real gap today between individual features shipping and a coherent experience coming out the other side. Closing that is a big part of this job.

Working in an AI-native way is a real expectation here, not a nice-to-have. We're building toward a model where AI owns the development loop and engineers direct and are accountable for what ships. We expect this person to already work that way — directing agents through the full development cycle, writing clear problem statements AI can run against, holding the quality bar on output. If you're using AI to go faster at the same tasks you'd do anyway, that's not the shift we're making.

The role is hands-on. Deep reviews, prototyping, unblocking things stuck in the middle. The leverage isn't in your direct output though — it's in how much the teams around you move because you're involved.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $167,000 to $280,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $194,000 to $260,000 CAD. Note: 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 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

• Help drive and define Android experiences across Maps, Realtime, Feed, Notifications, History, and coordination features.
• Work closely with technical leads across individual teams to align on patterns, architectural guardrails, and execution plans.
• Provide direction that helps teams sequence work effectively and build toward a cohesive, long-term experience.
• Unblock complex technical challenges, deliver prototypes, perform deep reviews, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the department.
• Write production code while focusing on high-leverage activities that accelerate teams and improve architectural consistency.
• Direct AI agents through the development loop, from problem framing through code, review, and ship. Own what comes out.
• Build with instrumentation and quality gates from the start, not after. Every feature needs a signal on whether it's actually working.
• Push AI-native practices across the Experiences team (agentic workflows, automated tracking, LLM-assisted validation). This is part of what a Staff engineer does here now.
• Collaborate closely with Design to deliver polished, intuitive, and emotionally expressive interactions.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing Android applications at scale, ideally in high-engagement, high-MAU products.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development practices such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Architecture Components.
• Strong architectural skills and the ability to define patterns and guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Experience leading complex, multi-team initiatives and delivering cohesive end-to-end user experiences.
• Ability to influence product direction through technical insight, clear framing, and thoughtful evaluation of tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated strength as a hands-on technical multiplier through mentorship, deep reviews, prototyping, and unblocker-level problem solving.
• Active use and development of AI coding agents in your day-to-day work, with real examples of AI-directed output you owned and shipped.
  You think in problems, not tasks. There should be examples where you shaped what got built, not just how.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Our 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.

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!

#LI-Remote

____________________________________________________________________________

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker 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 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 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 who are basically 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. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

Data Science at Life360 is a lean, high-impact, matrixed team with individuals embedded in business units and working cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, Engineering, and business stakeholders. We are dedicated to enhancing and optimizing the user experience, accelerating growth, and generating revenue through subscriptions, partnerships, and ads. We leverage a variety of technical skills and tools including experimentation, machine learning, advanced analytics, and agentic AI (AI-Native development) to deliver exceptional customer value.

About the Job

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to scale Life360’s growth and user retention efforts. This role will be a core contributor to the Growth team’s strategy and operations. You will work closely with business leads, lifecycle marketing, and user acquisition teams to optimize the entire funnel—from registrations to subscriptions and churn reduction. Your expertise will help Life360 make smarter, faster, and more scalable decisions, directly impacting millions of users.

This role requires strong technical expertise and practice experience in machine learning, statistical modeling, experimentation, and causal inference, as well as the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive measurable business outcomes.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $129,000 to $190,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $149,500 to $176,000 CAD. 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

• Experimentation & Causal Inference: Design and implement scalable A/B tests to train causal inference models and multi-armed bandits to optimize registration, trial conversion, and retention strategies.
• Automation & Personalization: Build and scale automation tools for experimentation and segmentation, ensuring teams can efficiently test and iterate on hypotheses.
• Growth Optimization: Develop predictive models and statistical frameworks to improve trial-to-subscription conversion, reduce churn, and enhance overall customer LTV.
• User Segmentation & Personalization: Leverage clustering, behavioral analysis, and geospatial data to identify key user segments and tailor experiences accordingly.
• Product Development: Collaborate with product managers and engineers to conceive and develop innovative product ideas, driving feature iteration and development to make impact.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with growth, lifecycle marketing, and user acquisition teams to translate insights into scalable marketing and product strategies.
• Data Infrastructure & Tooling: Work with data engineering to improve the data ecosystem, ensuring robust, scalable pipelines for experimentation and analysis.
• Thought Leadership: Act as a mentor and thought leader within the data science team, helping to define best practices in experimentation, machine learning, data-driven decision-making, and agentic AI (AI-Native) best practices.

What We’re Looking For

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or analytics, with a focus on growth, experimentation, and user retention.
• Strong experience in causal inference, A/B testing methodologies, and statistical modeling.
• Deep understanding of machine learning models for user segmentation, personalization, and predictive analytics.
• Proficiency in Python (Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow) and SQL for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, AWS, Databricks.
• Experience with product development or customer life cycle management.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate data insights into actionable business strategies.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in subscription-based products, lifecycle marketing, or user acquisition.
• Experience with geospatial data and mobile location-based services.
• Familiarity with Bayesian modeling, uplift modeling, and reinforcement learning for experimentation.
• Experience with workflow automation tools for experimentation and data science operations.
• Experience in the consumer technology sector, particularly within a fast-paced and sometimes ambitious development setting.

Core Expectations

• Problem-solving mindset - You structure ambiguous problems precisely before reaching for a tool, AI or otherwise
• Collaborative approach - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively, work well across teams, and value diverse perspectives
• Ownership mentality - You take responsibility for your work from design through production and beyond
• AI-native working style - You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams rather than hand-holding one agent at a time

We believe culture fit and problem-solving ability matter more than checking every technical box. We're happy to help you grow into areas where you have less experience.

Our 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.

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!

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