Senior Software Engineer II, Messaging, Cloud

About this role

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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 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 Messaging team owns the backbone of Life360’s real-time infrastructure, powering the event streaming and data pipelines that keep millions of families connected. We process billions of events every day, enabling everything from location updates to safety alerts through reliable, high-throughput streaming systems.


Our work sits at the center of Life360’s technical ecosystem. We collaborate closely with mobile, backend, and data teams to build scalable, resilient infrastructure while tackling complex distributed systems challenges like schema evolution, data consistency, zero-downtime migrations, and platform reliability at scale.


The team is currently leading major innovation initiatives, including migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud, managing organization-...