Staff Software Engineer – AI-Native

Job Description:

• Design and build high-quality API and services for the international adaptation of Life360 — services that are life saving, and genuinely useful.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the International team, establishing playbooks the broader org can adopt.
• Build across the full stack as needed — shipping polished, performant, and reliable experiences to tens of millions of users.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to turn complex user problems into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase the delivery of strong outcomes — moving faster without sacrificing quality.
• Hold a high bar for quality end-to-end: you define what "done" means, instrument your work for observability, and treat post-launch behavior as part of the job — not someone else's problem.
• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.
• Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you own.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating high-quality, consumer-scale services.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in cloud development using modern Java, Kubernetes, AWS and streaming technologies.
• Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• A track record of using AI tooling to multiply your own output — not just as autocomplete, but as a genuine development partner.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills — you work well with product, design, and platform engineers.
• A genuine excitement for defining what it means to be AI-Native — you’re not waiting for the playbook, you want to write it.
• Empathy for our international members - including those with lower end mobile devices and inconsistent network connectivity. Building highly localized experiences is critical to bringing the value of Life360 to global markets.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
• Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.