Senior Backend Engineer Ii - Ai-native, Devices Cloud

Life360

Remote, US
Base: $148,000 to $216,500 usd (us); base: 171,500...
Remote
5+ years backend service experience
Hands-on llm prompting and evaluation
Agentic workflow orchestration
Life360 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II for their Devices Cloud team to enhance their AI-native backend services powering connected hardware. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in backend development, particularly with AI tools, and be comfortable collaborating across teams

Job Summary

  • Life360 is an AI-Native team that uses AI as a first-class collaborator for spec writing, code generation, and system design.
  • The role involves building scalable backend services for connected devices like Tile trackers and Jiobit wearables while defining AI-native engineering practices.
  • Candidates are expected to use AI coding assistants daily for substantive tasks including analysis, refactoring, and test validation without sacrificing quality.

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Life360 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II for their Devices Cloud team to enhance their AI-native backend services powering connected hardware. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in backend development, particularly with AI tools, and be comfortable collaborating across teams.

Salary

Base: $148,000 to $216,500 USD (US); Base: 171,500 to 201,000 CAD (Canada); Equity included

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5+ years backend service experience
  • Hands-on LLM prompting and evaluation
  • Agentic workflow orchestration
  • AWS microservices architecture
  • High-throughput streaming data pipelines

Nice-to-have

  • IoT or embedded hardware systems experience
  • Kafka or Kinesis streaming platforms
  • Time-series data ingest systems
  • Observability tooling expertise
  • SRE practices and automated testing

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in Java, Go, or Python
  • Deep experience with agentic workflows and prompt engineering
  • Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

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