Life360

Senior Backend Engineer – Devices Cloud

Life360

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $148,000 - $216,500 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services that support device connectivity, telemetry ingest, health monitoring, and command/control operations.
  • Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to define APIs and workflows for device features.
  • Deliver scalable, resilient systems in a microservices environment running on AWS (EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, etc.).
  • Build and own data pipelines for high-throughput streams using Kafka or similar streaming tech.
  • Instrument services for observability, reliability, and SLO compliance.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and live incident response.
  • Write clean, testable, performant code and help improve CI/CD and automation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years experience building backend services in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages.
  • Experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and distributed systems.
  • Strong skills with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), container orchestration, and deployments.
  • Experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL), caching layers, and event/streaming systems.
  • Comfortable collaborating across teams and articulating technical tradeoffs.
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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
JavaGoPythonmicroservices architectureRESTful API designdistributed systemscloud infrastructuredatabasesevent streamingCI/CD
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationtechnical tradeoffs
Certifications
Bachelor’s in Computer Science