Senior Backend Engineer II - Devices Cloud

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360

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360’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. Life
360 serves approximately 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU) as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 countries.

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360 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 ഇറ).

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360 has more than 750 (and growing!) remote‑first employees. For more information, please visit

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360 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.

The Devices Cloud team owns backend services that manage a massive fleet of connected devices and high‑frequency data streams. You’ll work ажиллага systems that ingest, process, and serve real‑time state for hardware units globally, integrating with API gateways, processing telemetry data, and supporting cross‑team product needs (mobile, firmware'env analytics). These services run at scale, and you’ll be helping make them reliable, observable, and easy to operate.

As a Backend Engineer on the Devices Cloud team, you’ll build and operate the cloud services that power Life
360’s connected devices. This role sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and mobile, translating real‑world device signals into reliable, scalable backend systems. You’ll work on high‑throughputainerslow‑latency services that manage device state, ingest telemetry, and enable new device‑driven features for millions of members worldwide. The work is hands‑on, systems‑oriented, and designed for engineers who enjoy solving messy, real‑world problems at scale.

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that support device connectivity, telemetry ingest, health monitoring, and command/control operations.
• Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to define APIs and workflows for device features.
• Deliver scalable,liye resilient systems in a microservices environment running on AWS (EKS, Lambda, Dynamo
  
  DB, SQS, etc.).
• Build and own data pipelines for high‑throughput streams using Kafka or similar streaming tech.
• Instrument services for observability, reliability, and SLO compliance.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and live incident response.
• Write clean, testable, performant code and help improve CI/CD and automation.

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• 5+ years experience building backend services in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and distributed systems.
• Strong skills with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), container orchestration, and deployments.
• Experience with databases (relational and/or No
  
  SQL), caching layers, and event/streaming systems.
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and articulating technical tradeoffs.

• Experience with IoT or telematics systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, or other streaming platforms.
• Experience with high‑frequency ingest patients and time‑series data.
• A background with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Knowledge of SRE practices and automated testing frameworks.

• 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 & 信息 programs.
• Equipment,…