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Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, Messaging

Life360 is a remote-first consumer platform that connects and protects families at scale; the Messaging team owns the real-time streaming infrastructure that powers location, safety alerts, and push notifications for millions of users. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer II who is AI-native — someone who designs and operates Kafka-first streaming services, drives platform migrations, manages schema governance, and uses agentic workflows to ship reliable production systems.

Skills

  • 6+ years backend software engineering experience
  • Strong Java and Spring Boot proficiency
  • Production experience with Apache Kafka or comparable streaming systems
  • Solid distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, fault tolerance, delivery semantics)
  • AWS experience and familiarity with containerized/Kubernetes deployments
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform)
  • Protobuf and gRPC familiarity and schema evolution practices
  • Observability and incident response (DataDog, Prometheus, PagerDuty)
  • AI-native working style: prompting, agent orchestration, critical validation

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate streaming services using Kafka, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Stream.
  • Develop and manage Kafka connectors and SMT chains for data integration (DynamoDB, S3, NSQ, custom sinks/sources).
  • Own schema management across Protobuf and Schema Registry, including multi-language codegen and publishing pipelines.
  • Drive platform migrations (MSK → Confluent Cloud, NSQ → Kafka) and implement dual-cluster consumer patterns and cutover playbooks.
  • Write and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform), ship through CI/CD, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (DataDog, PagerDuty, Prometheus) for high availability and reliability.
  • Work AI-natively: run multiple agents in parallel, author prompts and evals, review agent output critically, and improve team AI practices.
  • Mentor teammates, raise technical standards, and contribute to API design, data contracts, and integration patterns.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience (or higher)
  • Relevant on-the-job experience in distributed systems and infra if degree not held

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance (US benefits noted as 100% paid)
  • 401(k) with company match (US) and RRSP with DPSP (Canada)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental wellness support
  • Flexible PTO and 12 company-wide days off
  • Learning & Development programs and equipment reimbursement
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership
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BENEFITS & PERKS
Dental Insurance
Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Vision Insurance
Family Medical Leave
Paid Holidays
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$148,000/yr - $216,500/yr
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Full-time, remote
DATE POSTED
April 22, 2026
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