Director, Engineering, Platform/Services

The role

You will lead engineering teams building and operating critical platforms including location, messaging, cloud infrastructure, identity, and partner ecosystems. You will act as a player coach to set technical direction, develop engineering managers, and ensure systems are reliable, secure, and scalable.

What you will do

• Lead engineering teams behind critical services like location, messaging, cloud, identity, and partner platforms.
• Anticipate architectural bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling challenges.
• Establish high standards for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident response.
• Create an engineering organization where teams proactively identify problems and drive solutions.
• 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 to enable product teams to ship faster.
• Connect technical strategy to member experience, product velocity, and business performance.
• Partner across Product, Security, Data, and Engineering to align priorities.
• Engage in architectural reviews and champion AI-assisted development and automation.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience managing managers
• Track record of leading backend or platform engineering at high scale with distributed systems serving millions of users
• Success developing and coaching managers
• Experience translating company strategy into technical plans
• Experience modernizing legacy systems
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills
• Hands-on technical credibility in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• B2B or B2C platform experience
• AWS experience

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans
• 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)
• 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

Before you apply

• AI tool usage during interviews varies by role
• Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed or approved may impact candidacy

About the company

Life360 is a remote-first company with more than 500 employees. Its mission is to keep people close to the ones they love through mobile apps, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS trackers.