Director, Engineering, Platform/Services

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...

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 basica...

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Build the foundation for scale. Lead the engineering teams behind Life360’s critical services, including location and messaging, cloud and identity, and partner platforms. Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems that can support hundreds of millions of members around the world.
See around corners. Anticipate architectural bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling challenges before they impact members. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, and balance near-term business needs with long-term platform investments.
Make reliability a competitive advantage. Establish high standards for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident response. Build resilient systems that proactively detect and prevent failures, ensuring members can trust Life360 in the moments that matter most.
Build a culture of ownership and accountability. Create an engineering organization where teams proactively identify problems, take responsibility for outcomes, and drive solutions without waiting for direction. Empower leaders to make decisions, challenge the status quo, and continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence across organizational boundaries.
Make the invisible visible. Establish meaningful engineering metrics across reliability, performance, cost, security, and developer productivity. Use data to identify risks, prioritize investments, and communicate platform health and business impact to senior leadership.
Grow leaders who grow teams. Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders. Build a high-performing organization with clear accountability, strong technical judgment, and leaders who can make decisions and deliver outcomes independently.
Accelerate the entire engineering organization. Build reusable services, APIs, and platforms that reduce duplication and enable product teams to ship faster. Expand our partner ecosystem through secure, scalable integrations that make it easier to build on Life360.
Turn engineering investments into business outcomes. Connect technical strategy to member experience, product velocity, and business performance. Make deliberate tradeoffs across reliability, scalability, cost, and speed, and use meaningful metrics to demonstrate impact and inform investment decisions.
Lead through influence. Partner across Product, Security, Data, and Engineering to align priorities, resolve ambiguity, and drive cross-functional decisions. Translate company strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps while bringing technical risks and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
Stay close to the technology and embrace what’s next. Engage in architectural reviews and critical technical decisions, challenge assumptions, and empower teams to make pragmatic tradeoffs. Champion AI-assisted development, automation, and modern engineering practices to improve productivity, quality, and speed.

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. B2B or B2C platform experience is welcome.
Demonstrated success developing and coaching managers, including former individual contributors who grew into leadership.
Experience translating company strategy into technical plans, and representing your teams’ needs back to senior leaders.
Experience modernizing legacy systems with respect for the history behind them, and the judgment to change what needs changing rather than everything.
Strong cross-functional partnership skills, with a record of resolving ownership and priority conflicts directly.
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.