Sr. Staff Backend Engineer AI-Native, Devices Cloud

1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Life360

Life360

Life360 is the top family location safety app, offering advanced safety features to connect and protect millions of families worldwide.

Family Services
251-1K
Founded 2008
$140M raised

Description

  • Own the technical architecture and long-term roadmap for Devices Cloud systems, including device connectivity, telemetry ingest, state management, command/control, and data pipelines.
  • Define system-level technical direction across multiple teams and resolve architectural trade-offs and cross-team design conflicts.
  • Lead AI-native engineering practices by architecting agentic workflows and standardizing AI-assisted spec writing, code generation, test coverage, and incident response.
  • Partner with firmware, mobile, product, and platform teams to define APIs, integration standards, and device-driven workflows.
  • Drive large-scale cross-team initiatives from conception through production, managing dependencies and ensuring delivery outcomes.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, failure modes, and security risks, and define safeguards and standards to prevent recurring problems.
  • Mentor and develop Staff and Senior engineers through architectural guidance, technical reviews, and team enablement.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to shape priorities, advocate for technical investment, and communicate strategy to executives.
  • Represent the team in cross-functional forums and produce clear architectural documentation and roadmap artifacts.
  • Participate in on-call rotation, lead high-severity incident response, and drive post-mortems and systemic remediation.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend or cloud infrastructure systems.
  • Strong preference for experience in IoT, telematics, or hardware-adjacent domains.
  • Proven track record of setting technical direction across teams and aligning engineering roadmaps with business goals.
  • Deep expertise with cloud-native infrastructure, including AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and Kinesis.
  • Strong experience with distributed systems design and high-throughput data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows, including multi-agent systems, context management, and AI-native development practices.
  • Ability to mentor Staff and Senior engineers and drive cultural change through influence.
  • Exceptional communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and lead cross-functionally.
  • Experience with high-frequency ingest systems, time-series data, and streaming platforms such as Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience with IoT, embedded, or firmware-adjacent systems.
  • Preferred background in SRE practices, reliability engineering, and progressive delivery.
  • Preferred familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or DataDog.
  • Preferred experience contributing to open source, conference talks, or technical publications.
  • Preferred knowledge of hardware/firmware communication protocols such as MQTT, BLE, or CoAP.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits, including a salary range of $216,500 to $318,500 USD for U.S.-based candidates or 251,000 to 295,000 CAD for Canada-based candidates.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
  • 401(k) with company matching in the U.S. or RRSP with DPSP matching in Canada.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being.
  • Flexible PTO plus several company-wide days off throughout the year.
  • Winter and summer week-long synchronized company shutdowns.
  • Learning and Development programs.
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
  • Free Tile products.

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