Director of Engineering, Location Platform

Salary

• US: $213,500 - $313,500 USD
• Canada: $250,500 - $294,500 CAD
  • Note: Final salary may vary based on background, experience, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

Location Type

Remote First (within US and Canada)

Employment Type

Full-time

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 83.7 million monthly active users (MAU), as of May 2025 across more than 150 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 the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.

About The Team

The Location Platform team supports our mission to deliver peace of mind and make everyday family life better through a best-in-class app—uniquely powered by fast, insightful, and delightful location-forward experiences that drive lasting loyalty and ongoing engagement. We build and maintain a robust foundation that enables us to rapidly deliver exceptional value, quality, and delight to our members. This foundation includes the precise collection and delivery of location and sensor data from member devices, powering both the direct app experience and the development of innovative products across Life360. Our team also continuously obsesses over app performance, rigorously measuring and improving key metrics to ensure a consistently reliable, seamless, and performant experience for our over 80 million members worldwide.

About the Job

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Engineering to lead the Location Platform engineering team within the Location Experiences organization at Life360. This role is pivotal in shaping Life360’s core location technology, foundational to our member experience. You will directly influence strategic technical decisions, drive innovation, and ensure our platform remains a market leader, delivering unparalleled value to families worldwide. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional leaders, aligning engineering initiatives with overarching product and organizational objectives. As a key leader, you will guide the platform's evolution, driving improvements that empower families around the world to stay connected, safe, and informed.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop engineering teams, coaching and mentoring managers and senior engineers to foster a collaborative, high-performance environment.
• Own and continuously refine the long-term strategic vision for the location platform, ensuring it scales effectively and remains at the forefront of technological innovation.
• Develop and execute a strategic technology roadmap that aligns with Life360’s business goals and delivers innovative, reliable, and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Analytics, Design, and Infrastructure teams to define and deliver coo