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Salary: USD 216,500 - 318,500 / annual
Life360 is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the platform and services engineering teams that build and operate the critical systems millions of families depend on daily. The role combines deep technical leadership with people management, overseeing teams responsible for location and messaging services, cloud infrastructure and identity, and partner ecosystems.
As a player-coach director, you will set technical direction for backend and platform systems serving 102+ million monthly active users across 180+ countries. Key responsibilities include:
• Leading and developing engineering managers and technical leaders, with a focus on growing former individual contributors into leadership roles
• Anticipating and solving scaling challenges before they impact members, modernizing legacy systems while respecting their history
• Establishing high standards for reliability, security, performance, and observability across critical services
• Building a culture of ownership where teams proactively identify problems and drive solutions independently
• Establishing meaningful engineering metrics across reliability, performance, cost, security, and developer productivity
• Building reusable services and APIs that enable product teams to ship faster and expand the partner ecosystem
• Translating company strategy into technical roadmaps and connecting engineering investments to business outcomes
• Partnering cross-functionally with Product, Security, Data, and other engineering leaders to align priorities and resolve ambiguity
• Staying engaged in architectural reviews and critical technical decisions, championing modern practices including AI-assisted development
Life360 is a remote-first company with 500+ employees. The company is AI-native and integrates AI into how it builds and operates. You'll work in a mission-driven culture focused on keeping families close and safe through location sharing, safe driver reports, crash detection with emergency dispatch, and pet GPS tracking.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams with experience managing managers
• Track record leading backend or platform engineering at high scale, with distributed systems serving millions of users (B2B or B2C)
• Demonstrated success developing and coaching managers, including former individual contributors who grew into leadership
• Experience translating company strategy into technical plans and representing team needs to senior leaders
• Experience modernizing legacy systems with good judgment about what to change
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills with a record of resolving ownership and priority conflicts
• 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
