Backend Software Developer, Life360

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 3+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot
• 2+ years experience with relational or non-relational databases such as MySQL, Apache Pinot, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB
• Experience deploying and maintaining systems, ideally with Kubernetes
• Understands microservices and their architectures
• Communicates effectively with cross-platform teammates

Desirable

• The Networks team is responsible for defining, building and supporting authorization and authentication systems, high-frequency sensor ingest, client attesting technologies and network optimization
• Their systems are used by all teams at Life360 and have tremendous impact on the overall operations of the product
• Some of their maintained and owned services are the highest throughput in the company offering unique scaling challenges and opportunities
• You’ll be working closely with some of our most senior engineers, including Staff, on Java and PHP technologies to enhance and extend our authorization systems as well as building the next generation of high-frequency sensor data ingest by utilizing Java, Kafka and Kafka Connect
• Not only will you be building services, but you will have the opportunity to manage their deployment as well
• Building the next generation of high-frequency sensor data ingest utilizing Java and Kafka
• Enhancing our existing authorization and authentication systems which utilize JWTs
• Monitor health, suggest/drive improvements for, and deploy your own services
• Work cross-functionally across teams to gain alignment on team initiatives
• Maintain and improve service level objectives (SLOs)
• Collaborate closely with Senior and Staff engineers to build technical specs
• Automate deployment of services and component validation with testing suites