[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer 2, Backend @Life360
Apr 04, 2025 - Life360 is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer 2, Backend. đź’¸ Salary: $144,500-$213,000. đź“ŤLocation: USA, Canada.
Role Description
We’re hiring a Senior 2 Back End Cloud Engineer to help power the Life360 experience, where we keep families and extended communities connected. In this role, you'll lead the design and development of robust and scalable Cloud systems in Java that are built to handle heavy loads while remaining adaptable to evolving product demands.
- Create new Spring Java micro services to support new product features
- Create new API gateways to enable external integration
- Horizontally scale our system to handle another 10+ billion events per day
- Monitor health, suggest improvements for and deploy your own services
- Build the next generation of our event streaming architecture to handle billions of events per day storing up to trillions of events in cold storage
- Build a system to support a richer dialog when checking in to a place
- Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams
- Handle on call rotation and address live incidents
Qualifications
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience programming in Java, PHP, Python, or other formal programming language
- Expert level experience managing medium to large scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts)
- Expert level experience with Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc.
- Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and running at scale (10k+ containers)
- Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience
- Proficient in multi-threaded design and implementation
- Database knowledge is a plus to have
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
- 401(k) (or RRSP) plan with company matching program
- Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
- Flexible PTO, with 13 companywide days off throughout the year
- Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
- Free Tile Products
Company Description
Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices 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 77 million monthly active users (MAU), as of November 2024, across more than 170 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 that basically are family).
Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees.
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.
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Salary
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$144,500-$213,000
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Remote
Location
USA, Canada
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 04, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA, Canada |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
