Director, Engineering – Platform/Services

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $216.5k - $318.5k / year

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Life360

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

👥 B2C

📡 Telecommunications

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

B2C • Safety • Telecommunications

Life360 is a leading family safety app that offers a comprehensive suite of services for location and digital safety. With Life360, users can effortlessly share their location, track their phones, and manage driving safety measures, including crash detection and 24/7 roadside assistance. The app includes features for digital safety, such as identity theft protection and SOS alerts, ensuring protection and prevention for each family member. Life360's plans, which include free, Gold, and Platinum options, are designed to accommodate various needs, offering peace of mind with advanced safety and coordination tools. The app is trusted by millions of users and is highly rated on app stores for its efficiency and reliability in connecting family members and ensuring their safety.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering teams responsible for location and messaging, cloud and identity, and partner platforms • Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems supporting hundreds of millions of members • Anticipate architectural bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling challenges • Set technical direction and modernize legacy systems • Establish standards for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident response • Build a culture of ownership and accountability • Establish engineering metrics across reliability, performance, cost, security, and developer productivity • Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders • Build reusable services, APIs, and platforms • Expand the partner ecosystem through secure, scalable integrations • Connect technical strategy to member experience, product velocity, and business performance • Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leaders on priorities and decisions • Engage in architectural reviews and critical technical decisions • Champion AI-assisted development, automation, and modern engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers • Track record of leading backend or platform engineering at high scale, with distributed systems serving millions of users • Experience developing and coaching managers • Experience translating company strategy into technical plans and representing teams’ needs to senior leaders • Experience modernizing legacy systems • Strong cross-functional partnership skills • Hands-on technical credibility in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems; AWS experience preferred • Excellent written and verbal communication • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees) • Life and disability insurance and supplemental medical and dental plans for Canadian employees • 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US • RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees • Paid parental leave • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being • Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns • Learning & Development programs • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment • Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers • Equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)