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Senior Software Engineer II – AI-Native, Messaging
Location
United States
Posted
101 days ago
Salary
$148K - $216.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer II – AI-Native, Messaging
Life360
• Design, build, and operate streaming services on Kafka, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Stream — directing agents to scaffold, test, and iterate, and owning the outcome end-to-end. • Develop and manage Kafka connectors for data integration (DynamoDB, S3, NSQ, custom sinks/sources) and the SMT chains that keep them honest. • Own schema management and evolution across Protobuf, Schema Registry, and multi-language code generation — including the Gradle/Nexus publishing pipelines that back it. • Drive platform migrations (MSK → Confluent Cloud, NSQ → Kafka) including dual-cluster consumer patterns, VPC peering, and cutover playbooks. • Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (DataDog, PagerDuty, Prometheus) that catch problems before pages fire. • Write infrastructure as code in Terraform, ship it through CI/CD, and participate in the on-call rotation and incident response for the services you own. • Work AI-natively as the default mode of operation. Run multiple agents in parallel. Write prompts with real context and constraints. Review every diff like you wrote it yourself. Know when to throw the agent's output out and do it by hand. • Evolve the team's AI-native practices — prompt libraries, evals, review rituals, and the guardrails that make all of it safe at production scale. • Mentor teammates, raise the bar on technical standards, and contribute to the team's API design, data contracts, and integration patterns.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot — this is our primary stack and you should be comfortable reading, writing, and debugging it without assistance.
- Production experience with Apache Kafka or a comparable distributed streaming platform (Pulsar, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
- Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, delivery semantics, and data durability tradeoffs.
- Comfortable with AWS (or equivalent cloud) and containerized deployments on Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable IaC for real, multi-environment infrastructure.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). Supplemental medical and dental plans 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.
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
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