About Life360
At Life360, we’re on a mission to simplify safety so families can live fully. Everyday more than 61+ million members across 195 countries trust us to protect and connect their loved ones at home, on the road, and on the go.
From real-time location updates to keep everyone coordinated, to Crash Detection and 24/7 Roadside Assistance, Life360 is designed to free families from everyday worries. Our range of Driving Safety, Digital Safety, Location Safety, and Personal Safety features are there to keep our members safe every step of the way.
Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees.
In 2021, Life360 acquired Tile, the pioneer in finding technology, and Jiobit, one of the top real-time location monitoring platforms for families. These expanded offerings mark an important step forward towards achieving our vision of being the world's leading platform for people, pets and things.
Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above.
About The Team
The Horizons Cloud Engineering team is responsible for defining, building, and supporting the foundational cloud services that all developers at Life360 depend on. This team consists of some of the most senior and trusted engineers at Life360 who are constantly thinking about scale and performance and how it will impact the millions of customers and families that depend on our services. If you are looking to multiply your output, this is your team.
About the Job
You’ll be working with a close-knit backend team of Cloud, PHP, Java, and Python engineers, all working closely to provide a best-in-class platform for developers to use. This team works closely with our Staff engineers and other teams at Life360 to ensure solutions will perform at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Work with other engineers to strategize on how to decouple PHP services into new Java microservices
- Horizontally scale our PHP platform to handle another 10+ billion events per day
- Work cross-functionally across teams to gain alignment on your or team's initiatives
- Monitor health, suggest/drive improvements for, and deploy your own services
- Mentor other developers to help them grow
- Maintain and improve service level objectives (SLOs)
- Collaborate closely with Staff engineers to build technical specs
- Help our Test Engineering team to further automate services and component validation
- Handle on-call rotation and work with the team to address incidents
What We’re Looking For
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience
- 5+ years experience with Java services
- 3+ years experience with relational or non-relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
- Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures
- Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with Kubernetes
- Communicates effectively with cross-platform teammates
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years experience with Java (bonus for Spring Framework experience), Python, PHP, CakePHP, and queuing/stream technologies such as Kafka and NSQ
- Adaptive to working across programming languages regularly
- Experience decoupling large monoliths into discrete services
- Experience working remotely, with minimal guidance, and building strong cross-functional partnerships
- Experience working with AWS products (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, and Terraform
- Experience writing technical specifications for systems design
- Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems
Our Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans
- RRSP plan with DPSP company matching program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
- Flexible PTO, several company wide days off throughout the year
- Winter and Summer Week-long 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
Life360 Values
Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust.
- Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
- Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.
- High Intensity High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Our Commitment to Diversity
We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!
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