Staff Data Engineer, Life360
Location sharing app for families
Open for applications
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- You should have a strong engineering background and even more importantly a desire to take ownership of our data systems to make them world class
- Minimum 7 years of experience working with high volume data infrastructure
- Experience with Databricks and AWS
- Experience with dbt
- Experience with job orchestration tooling like Airflow
- Proficient programming in Python
- Proficient with SQL and the ability to optimize complex queries
- Proficient with large-scale data processing using Spark and/or Presto/Trino
- Proficient in data modeling and database design
- Experience with streaming data with a tool like Kinesis or Kafka
- Experience working with high volume event based data architecture like Amplitude and Braze
- Experience in modern development lifecycle including Agile methodology, CI/CD, automated deployments using Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc
- Knowledge and proficiency in the latest open source and data frameworks, modern data platform tech stacks and tools
- Always learning and staying up to speed with the fast moving data world
- You have good communication and collaboration skills and can work independently
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Data and Analytics team is looking for a high intensity individual who is passionate about driving our data platform forward and changing the way we do data
- Your mission will be to analyze our current ways of doing things and architect new solutions using cutting edge tools
- You will be expected to become the go-to member in our team for our data platform strategy, implementation, and use
- We want open-minded individuals that are highly collaborative and communicative
- We work together and celebrate our wins as a team and are committed to building a welcoming team where everyone can perform their best
- At Life360, we collect a lot of data: 60 billion unique location points, 12 billion user actions, 8 billion miles driven every single month, and so much more
- As a Staff Data Engineer, you will contribute to enhancing and maintaining our data processing and storage pipelines/workflows for a robust and secure finance data lake
- Design, implement, and manage scalable data processing platforms used for real-time analytics and exploratory data analysis
- Manage our financial data from ingestion through ETL to storage and batch processing
- Automate, test and harden all data workflows
- Architect logical and physical data models to ensure the needs of the business are met
- Collaborate across the data teams, engineering, data science, and analytics, to understand their needs, while applying engineering best practices
- Architect and develop systems and algorithms for distributed real-time analytics and data processing
- Implement strategies for acquiring data to develop new insights
- Mentor junior engineers, imparting best practices and institutionalizing efficient processes to foster growth and innovation within the team
- Champion data engineering best practices and institutionalizing efficient processes to foster growth and innovation within the team
Our take
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.1)
Trustpilot (2.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Life360 has a culture of generating hypothesises, running tests, analysing the results and iterating. This has given me so much opportunity to learn..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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