Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices 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 77 million monthly active users (MAU), as of November 2024,  across more than 170 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 that basically are 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 Canada) regardless of any specified location above.  

About The Team

The Infrastructure Team is focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure, platforms, and tools used by other engineering teams.  This includes platforms like AWS services, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins, HAProxy, Cloudflare, and more.

About the Job

As a Sr2 Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure you will help build and maintain the infrastructure platforms that over 100  backend services run on.  You will be responsible for solving complex problems and designing and building scalable and resilient Platform Infrastructure to support services that run on Kubernetes clusters with over 20,000 cores, receive over 30Bn requests per day at the edge, process ~200B messages per day internally and have databases that process over 200k queries per second. You are comfortable exposing compute, data stores, and messaging as Platforms As Service to Life360 Cloud teams.

The Canada-based salary range for this position is $147,500 to $173,500 CAD. We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary- therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

What You’ll Do

As a Sr 2 Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure, you will be responsible for

• being opinionated on technical direction and strategy (and documenting those opinions for others to be able to follow), 
• leading and mentoring other engineers on the team
• helping implement or diagnose the thorniest of the problems seen
• Participate in shared on-call rotation (roughly one week every six weeks on call)
• Estimate schedules, breaking tasks down to reasonable 1-3 day tasks.
• Optimize for Cost Efficiency

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience programming in Java, Python, or other formal programming language
• Expert level experience (3+ years) managing medium to large-scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts)
• Strong Kubernetes experience (2+ years) deploying and managing at scale (100s of Deployments,10k+ containers, 20k+ Cores).
• Understanding of container orchestration, microservices
• Experience with service discovery / service mesh
• Strong Linux administration experience, shell/bash scripting.
• Expert level experience with Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc.
• Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience.
• Knowledge/experience with networking and Load balancers technologies.
• Experience with existing open source projects such as Consul, Docker, ArgoCD
• Experience with large-scale Kafka deployments
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Database knowledge is a plus.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, expertise with any monitoring tools, and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills and highly collaborative working style

We value having a diverse and inclusive community from many backgrounds, so even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans 
• RRSP plan with DPSP company matching program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
• Flexible PTO, several company wide days off throughout the year
• Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
• Free Tile Products

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference.

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Over Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.

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