Senior Mobile iOS Build and Release Engineer

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

We are agile, focused and obsessed with helping our engineers ship faster. We encourage our software engineers to embrace shared responsibility for writing testable, high-performance, maintainable code. We deliver the Life360 mobile apps weekly and fearlessly with a quality-oriented engineering culture. Individuals on our team are motivated, trusted, and continuously focused on technical perfection.

About The Job

As a Senior Mobile Build and Release Engineer on the Life360 Engineering team, you will help keep the Mobile CI/CD pipeline running at top speed. We need smart and passionate engineers who are obsessed with squeezing every bit of performance out of a build system and ensuring we safely deliver our apps to market. You will work with app developers and test engineers to provide consistent, high-confidence delivery through our CI/CD pipelines.

Salary Range:

• US Candidates: $123,000 - $180,500 USD
• Canadian Candidates: 145,000 - 169,500 CAD
  • Note: Job title in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer."

Base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate our mobile app CI/CD pipelines.
• Operate our build infrastructure, including working with vendor partners.
• Create the next-generation developer tooling and infrastructure for Life360’s mobile apps, focusing on productivity, testing, and release.
• Track and monitor the usage/consumption of Infrastructure services; ensure performance, SLA, and cost control adherence.
• Develop telemetry and alerting for opportunities to improve build infrastructure and tooling, and execute on them.
• Monitor and fix build pipelines, identify bottlenecks, and make improvements.
• Collaborate with leadership and key partners regularly.
• Keep the build pipelines updated as newer versions of Xcode are released.
• Making developers happy and productive is at the core of your mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience.
• Proficient in one system language like Swift and scripting languages like Ruby, Python, Go.
• Experience with dependency management systems like SPM and Cocoapods.
• Experience with containerizing build workloads (We use Orka and MacStadium).
• Experience configuring and using artifact repositories.