Senior Backend Cloud Developer II, Developer Experience (DevEx)
About The Position
Life360 is seeking a Senior Backend Cloud Developer II for their Developer Experience (DevEx) team. This role is part of the Cloud Success team, which builds and maintains the internal developer platform to enhance engineering velocity. The team designs and delivers tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and developer productivity systems. Cloud Success is central to Life360's AI-native engineering transformation, building foundations for AI-assisted development. The position is hands-on, requiring a balance of technical execution and cross-team collaboration to improve the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of the internal platform. The developer will contribute to AI-native engineering transformation by building automation to accelerate development across the organization. This is a remote-first position within Canada.
Requirements
- 5+ years in software or platform engineering, with at least 2 years in infrastructure- or tooling-focused roles.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Helm, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
- Proficiency designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Harness, CodeFresh, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Atmos).
- Solid understanding of AWS services, networking, IAM, and distributed system patterns.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with demonstrated ability to ship production-grade internal tooling.
- Fluent AI-native engineer: uses Claude Code, Copilot, or similar agents daily; has built or deployed at least one AI-powered automation in a production context.
- Proven ability to drive cross-team platform initiatives and communicate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using GitHub Actions, Argo Rollouts, or similar tools, optimizing for developer velocity and reliability.
- Build and maintain internal developer tooling, SDKs, and self-service platform capabilities on top of Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
- Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Atmos) for shared developer platform resources across multiple AWS accounts.
- Work with developers and operations engineers to define clear, helpful guidelines for rolling production changes out safely.
- Track metrics on organization tools like Cortex to validate that our changes are having the intended effect.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on cloud-native development, platform patterns, and AI engineering practices.
- Contribute to incident response and postmortem processes, including building AI-driven tooling for detection, triage, and prevention.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans
- RRSP plan with DPSP company matching program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
- Flexible PTO, several company wide days off throughout the year
- Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
- Free Tile Products
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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