VP, Infrastructure Engineering

Life360

3d • Remote

About The Position

Life360 is seeking an experienced VP of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the platform, systems, and infrastructure organization supporting its products. The role will shape and execute technical strategy to scale reliably toward the company’s 2028 goals of 150 million monthly active users and more than $1 billion in revenue, while helping the engineering organization adopt AI-native ways of working.

The Infrastructure Operating Group owns platforms, systems, and tools used by Life360’s engineering, product, and design teams, including build and deployment pipelines, internal tools, and the reliability of services used by families around the world. The organization treats infrastructure as a competitive advantage and focuses on developer experience, engineering velocity, quality, and systems built to last.

The VP will lead strategic infrastructure planning, developer productivity and enablement, reliability and scalability, team growth and culture, and cross-functional initiatives. This includes building platforms and tooling that help teams ship faster, supporting AI-powered capabilities, scaling securely and cost-effectively, and ensuring strong uptime, latency, observability, and disaster recovery. Life360 is a remote-first company; positions can be performed remotely within the US unless otherwise specified.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Many years of experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform engineering organizations, including leading through managers or directors.
• Track record of building strong teams and leading infrastructure or platform engineering organizations.
• Deep technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud architecture.
• Track record of scaling infrastructure for consumer products at massive scale, including iterative reliability improvements and major platform investments.
• Direct experience with, or meaningful involvement in, an organization’s shift toward AI-native ways of working.
• Bias for speed, experimentation, and learning from unsuccessful efforts.
• Strong data instincts and comfort analyzing cost, performance, and reliability metrics.
• Background at companies known for engineering excellence and resilient, high-performing platforms.
• Strategic thinking and strong storytelling ability to motivate and inspire a team around a shared technical vision.
• Conviction that robust, well-designed infrastructure is a competitive differentiator.
• Hands-on approach, with willingness to delegate while retaining ownership of team output.
• Ability to have tough, direct conversations while remaining kind and respectful.
• Comfort taking risks, making big bets, and deciding with incomplete information.
• Alignment with Life360’s values: Be a Good Person; Be Direct, with Respect; Members Before Metrics; High Intensity, High Impact.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to infrastructure demands of AI-powered products, such as supporting inference or ML workloads, and comfort operating in the fast-moving AI landscape.

Responsibilities

• Define, communicate, and execute an infrastructure vision in partnership with functional counterparts, aligned with Life360’s broader goals.
• Align infrastructure investments with business objectives in collaboration with the executive team.
• Build build/deploy pipelines, internal tooling, and self-service platforms that enable engineering, product, and design teams to ship faster, including AI-powered capabilities, while maintaining security, privacy, and cost discipline.
• Help the organization move toward AI-native ways of working.
• Scale infrastructure securely and cost-effectively as user growth and workload complexity increase.
• Maintain focus on uptime, latency, observability, and disaster recovery for systems serving tens of millions of families.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow an infrastructure and platform engineering team.
• Promote engineering craft and culture and foster innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Security, and Product leaders on strategic infrastructure initiatives, including compute and platform needs for AI-powered features.
• Use reliability and cost-efficiency KPIs and other data on cost, performance, and reliability to guide decisions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans, 100% paid for employees.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program.
• Mental Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible PTO, companywide holidays, and summer and winter shutdowns.
• Learning and Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive