Director, Engineering, Platform/Services - Life360

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 102.4 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 180 countries.

About The Team

Our Services engineering teams, part of our Quality and Scale Pillar, build and run the systems every Life360 member relies on but never sees. We carry location data between members’ phones and our servers, deliver the push and SMS notifications that families depend on, verify who members are and what they can access, build and scale our business critical services and give partners a safe way to build on Life360.

About the Job

As a Director of Engineering, you will lead the teams building and operating Life360’s critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure and identity, and partner ecosystems. You are a player coach who will set technical direction, develop strong engineering managers and technical leaders, and ensure our platforms are reliable, secure, and built to scale as Life360 grows to hundreds of millions of members worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Build the foundation for scale: Lead the engineering teams behind Life360’s critical services, including location and messaging, cloud and identity, and partner platforms.
• See around corners: Anticipate architectural bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling challenges before they impact members.
• Make reliability a competitive advantage: Establish high standards for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident response.
• Build a culture of ownership and accountability: Create an engineering organization where teams proactively identify problems and drive solutions.
• Grow leaders who grow teams: Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders.
• Accelerate the entire engineering organization: Build reusable services, APIs, and platforms that reduce duplication and enable product teams to ship faster.
• Turn engineering investments into business outcomes: Connect technical strategy to member experience, product velocity, and business performance.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers.
• Track record of leading backend or platform engineering at high scale, with distributed systems serving millions of users.
• Demonstrated success developing and coaching managers, including former individual contributors who grew into leadership.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems with respect for the history behind them.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills.
• 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.