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About Life360

Life360s 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 services including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 88 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 180 countries as of June 2025.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. 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 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 Data Platform teams purpose is to design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data infrastructure that empowers Life360 teams to make data-driven decisions. We transform raw data into reliable, accessible, and actionable insights, ensuring data quality, compliance, security, costs and performance at every step. By leveraging innovative technologies and best practices, we enable Product, Analytics and Partners to unlock the full potential of data, driving operational excellence and strategic growth.

About the Job

At Life360, we collect a lot of data: 60 billion unique location points, 12 billion user actions, 8 billion miles driven every month, and more. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will contribute to enhancing and maintaining our data processing and storage pipelines/workflows for external and internal data consumers. You should have a strong engineering background and, more importantly, a desire to take ownership of our data systems to make them world class.

What Youll Do

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design, implement, and manage scalable data processing platforms used for real-time analytics and exploratory data analysis.
• Manage our data from ingestion through ETL to storage and batch processing.
• Automate, test and harden all data workflows.
• Architect logical and physical data models to ensure the needs of the business are met.
• Collaborate with product analytics and data scientists, applying best practices.
• Architect and develop systems and algorithms for distributed real-time analytics and data processing.
• Implement strategies for acquiring data to develop new insights.

What Were Looking For

Experiences required for success in this role include:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with high volume data infrastructure.
• Experience with Databricks, AWS, ETL and job orchestration tooling.
• Extensive experience programming in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience in data modeling, optimizing SQL queries, and system performance tuning.
• Knowledge of open source and data frameworks, modern data platform tech stacks and tools.
• Proficiency with SQL, AWS, databases, Apache Spark, Spark Streaming, EMR, and Kinesis/Kafka.
• Ability to clean and make sense of messy unstructured data to produce quality data.
• Continuous learner with strong communication skills and the ability to work independently.
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

Life360 Values

Our culture is guided by values that support a trusted, authentic, and high-impact workplace.

• Be a Good Person
• Be Direct With Respect
• Members Before Metrics
• High Intensity High Impact

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. 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.

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To apply, please submit your information through Life360s official channels.