Life360
The #1 family safety app 📱
Staff Software Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$152K - $280.5K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsJava
Job Description
• Shape the technical direction of Life360’s Ads AdServer and Exchange platform, ensuring it scales reliably to support 20+ billion daily events with strict latency and availability targets.
• Drive architectural decisions that improve system resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance across distributed, multi–data center environments.
• Elevate the engineering bar by setting standards for design quality, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Enable revenue growth by integrating demand and supply partners and strengthening Real-Time Bidding and auction capabilities.
• Partner with Product and Design to unlock new monetization opportunities through innovative ad formats and platform capabilities.
• Anticipate scaling challenges and proactively design solutions before they impact customers or business performance.
• Lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, aligning multiple teams around clear architectural outcomes.
• Advance automation and quality practices, including AI-driven API validation and testing strategies, to improve velocity without compromising stability.
• Improve platform reliability by strengthening monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis practices.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier, increasing the overall effectiveness and technical depth of the organization.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
- 8+ years experience and deep expertise in Java and multi-threaded system design, with the ability to optimize for performance under heavy concurrency.
- Familiarity with AdTech ecosystems, including advertiser technologies or Real-Time Bidding frameworks, is highly desirable.
- Experience Integrating 3rd party Demand & Supply partners, is a plus.
- A track record of architecting and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at significant scale.
- Demonstrated success scaling systems across data centers, including replication strategies and distributed data management.
- Strong judgment in balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural sustainability.
- Experience influencing technical strategy across teams without direct authority.
- Proven ability to translate business objectives—particularly in advertising or monetization ecosystems—into scalable technical solutions.
- Solid database expertise and a strong understanding of data consistency, performance trade-offs, and capacity planning.
- Experience operating within cloud-native environments, ideally AWS-based infrastructures.
- Feel comfortable with the entire client flow and how it interacts with the various business components (Admin, App, Analytics etc).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align engineering, product, and business stakeholders around shared outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental 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.
