Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360. Backed by Bessemer and 500 Global.
About the role
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. These systems are the foundation of the experiences millions of families rely on every day. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they'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. B2B or B2C platform experience is welcome
- Demonstrated success developing and coaching managers, including former individual contributors who grew into leadership
- Experience translating company strategy into technical plans, and representing your teams’ needs back to senior leaders
- Experience modernizing legacy systems with respect for the history behind them, and the judgment to change what needs changing rather than everything
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills, with a record of resolving ownership and priority conflicts directly
More about this role
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), as of June 30, 2026, across more than 180 countries.
Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family).
Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com .
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 and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.
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