Director, Engineering – Platform/Services

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About the role

  • Engineering Director scaling Life360’s family safety platforms, location services, messaging, and cloud infrastructure. Leading distributed engineering teams serving millions of members worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • 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)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$216,500 - $318,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudDistributed Systems

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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