Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, Messaging @Life360
Software Development
Salary usd 148,000 - 2..
Remote Location
Job Type full-time
Posted 2d ago

[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, Messaging @Life360

2d ago - Life360 is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, Messaging. πŸ’Έ Salary: usd 148,000 - 216,500 per year πŸ“Location: USA, Canada

Role Description

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who has already made AI a first-class collaborator in their work.

  • Design streaming services, write and review code, own production incidents, and ship infrastructure.
  • Help shape the team's technical direction on Kafka-first streaming infrastructure and the next phase of our high-availability roadmap.
  • Evolve how the team works with AI β€” the prompts, the evals, the review patterns, and 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.
  • Develop and manage Kafka connectors for data integration (DynamoDB, S3, NSQ, custom sinks/sources).
  • Own schema management and evolution across Protobuf, Schema Registry, and multi-language code generation.
  • Drive platform migrations (MSK β†’ Confluent Cloud, NSQ β†’ Kafka).
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (DataDog, PagerDuty, Prometheus).
  • Write infrastructure as code in Terraform and participate in the on-call rotation and incident response.
  • Work AI-natively as the default mode of operation.
  • Evolve the team's AI-native practices β€” prompt libraries, evals, review rituals, and guardrails.
  • Mentor teammates, raise the bar on technical standards, and contribute to the team's API design, data contracts, and integration patterns.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot.
  • Production experience with Apache Kafka or a comparable distributed streaming platform.
  • 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

  • Prompting excellence β€” provide agents context, constraints, and expected outcomes.
  • Critical validation β€” explain every line the agent wrote and correct it as needed.
  • Agentic decomposition β€” break ambiguous problems into discrete, verifiable sub-tasks.
  • Parallel workstreams β€” run multiple agents or sessions concurrently on independent tasks.
  • Troubleshooting with AI β€” diagnose and recover from agent errors.
  • Technical authority β€” understand the underlying tech well enough to catch the agent when it's confidently wrong.

What matters most to us

  • Problem-solving mindset β€” structure ambiguous problems precisely before reaching for a tool.
  • Ownership β€” take a feature from design through production.
  • Direct, respectful communication β€” explain technical tradeoffs clearly and push back when necessary.
  • Collaborative β€” work well across teams and value diverse perspectives.

Nice-to-have

  • Go experience.
  • gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production.
  • Stream processing frameworks β€” Kafka Streams, Flink.
  • Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud specifics.
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions, artifact management.
  • Observability tooling β€” 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.

Compensation

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $148,000 to $216,500 USD. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

Benefits

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