Director, Engineering, Platform/Services

About this role

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), 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 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.
We are AI Native
We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.
Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed withI mean or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.
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. When we do our jobs well, product teams ship faster and families trust the app in the moments that matter most.
We are a group of backend, cloud, and mobile engineers who care about reliability, security, and scale, and who treat member trust as the foundation of everything we build.
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. These systems are the foundation of the experiences millions of families rely on every day. 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.
This is a leadership role that combines deep technical judgment with business impact. You will anticipate scaling challenges before they become problems, modernize critical systems, and make thoughtful tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, and speed. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Data, and engineering leaders to connect technology investments to business outcomes, accelerate product innovation, and build an engineering organization that can deliver at scale.
For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $216,500 to $318,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 251,000 to 295,000 CAD. Note: Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer." We take into consideration an individual's background, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience in determining final salary. Base pay may also vary based on geographic location, with US work locations falling into one of three geographic tiers.
Total compensation is inclusive of equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), as well as a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.
What You’ll Do

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Build the foundation for scale. Lead the engineering teams behind Life360’s critical services, including location and messaging, cloud and identity, and partner platforms. Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems that can support hundreds of millions of members around the world.

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See around corners. Anticipate architectural bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling challenges before they impact members. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, and balance near-term business needs with long-term platform investments.

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Make reliability a competitive advantage. Establish high standards for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident response. Build resilient systems that proactively detect and prevent failures, ensuring members can trust Life360 in the moments that matter most.

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Build a culture of ownership and accountability. Create an engineering organization where teams proactively identify problems, take responsibility for outcomes, and drive solutions without waiting for direction. Empower leaders to make decisions, challenge the status quo, and continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence across organizational boundaries.

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Make the invisible visible. Establish meaningful engineering metrics across reliability, performance, cost, security, and developer productivity. Use data to identify risks, prioritize investments, and communicate platform health and business impact to senior leadership.

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Grow leaders who grow teams. Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders. Build a high-performing organization with clear accountability, strong technical judgment, and leaders who can make decisions and deliver outcomes independently.

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Accelerate the entire…