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)
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