Life360 is an award-winning, San Francisco, California-based family network app that allows families to share their location and collaborate and communicate wit
Senior Backend Engineer – AI Native Devices Cloud
Location
United States
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
$148K - $216.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – AI Native Devices Cloud
Life360
• Design, build, and operate Devices Cloud services — device connectivity, telemetry ingest, state management, command/control, and data pipelines — ensuring they are scalable, secure, and reliable at Life360's scale. • Own complete features and subsystems from technical design through production, breaking down complex work, identifying dependencies, and delivering accurate estimates. • Apply AI-native engineering practices day to day: use AI assistants for spec writing, code generation, test coverage, and incident response, and share the prompting strategies that work with the team. • Partner with firmware, mobile, product, and platform teams to define APIs and integration patterns that translate cleanly across the hardware-software boundary. • Lead medium-sized, cross-functional initiatives, coordinating the work of other engineers and keeping delivery on track. • Identify risks, bottlenecks, and security gaps in your areas of ownership, and build in the automation and tests that prevent regressions. • Mentor junior engineers: coach them on structuring changes for review, conduct thorough code reviews, and help grow their skills. • Communicate progress, trade-offs, and technical concepts clearly to peers, partner teams, and your manager. • Write clear, concise technical specifications, and contribute to team documentation and knowledge sharing. • Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to high-severity incident response and post-mortems.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend or cloud infrastructure systems, ideally including some IoT, telematics, or hardware-adjacent work.
- Track record of owning complete features and subsystems, contributing to technical design, and leading medium-sized projects to delivery.
- Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS: EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, etc.), distributed systems, and data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants for substantive engineering work, with the judgment to review and own everything you ship.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping raise team-wide engineering standards.
- Strong communication skills: able to explain technical concepts clearly to peers, partner teams, and managers.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and managing competing priorities within and across teams.
- Experience with high-frequency ingest systems, time-series data, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian 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.
- Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
- Free Tile Products
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