Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Posted about 2 months agoViewed

💎 Seniority level: Staff, 8+ years

📍 Location: US and Canada

💸 Salary: 157500.0 - 232000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Technology / Mobile applications and tracking devices

🏢 Company: Life360👥 251-500💰 $33,038,258 Post-IPO Equity about 2 years ago🫂 Last layoff about 2 years agoAndroid Family Apps Mobile Apps Mobile

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 8+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSPHPPythonJavaKubernetesCI/CDTerraformMentorshipAnsible

Requirements:

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience programming in Java, PHP, Python, or other formal programming languages.
Expert level experience managing medium to large scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts).
Expert level experience with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc.
Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and running at scale (10k+ containers).
Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience.
Proficient in multi-threaded design and implementation.
Database knowledge is a plus.
Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ideally based out of the North America East Coast time zone.

Responsibilities:

Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams.
Partnering with the Engineering Manager to interview and onboard top talent for the EMEA-based teams.
Collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Director of Engineering, and Staff Engineers to define and execute the technical direction for various projects.
Ensuring effective communication and collaboration between multiple teams across regions and time zones.
Being hands-on with writing code where needed to support teams and projects.

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