VP, Infrastructure Engineering

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About the Job

We're looking for an experienced VP of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the platform, systems, and infrastructure organization behind Life360's products. You'll shape our technical strategy to scale reliably toward our 2028 goals of 150M monthly active users and $1B+ in revenue, and help the engineering organization adopt AI-native ways of working.

What You'll Do

While this is a leadership role and we expect you to be well-rounded across all areas, the specific areas of emphasis will be on the following pillars:

• Strategic Leadership - Define, communicate, and execute an infrastructure vision in partnership with your functional counterparts that complements Life360's broader goals. Align infrastructure investment with business objectives in close collaboration with the executive team.
• Developer Productivity & Enablement - Build the build/deploy pipelines, internal tooling, and self-service platforms that let engineering, product, and design teams ship faster - including AI-powered capabilities - without compromising security, privacy, or cost discipline. Bring firsthand experience helping an organization move toward AI-native ways of working, whether you drove that shift or were a meaningful part of it.
• Reliability & Scalability - Keep infrastructure scaling securely and cost-effectively as user growth and workload complexity increase. Uptime, latency, observability, and disaster recovery are non-negotiables for systems serving tens of millions of families.
• Team Leadership & Culture - Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class infrastructure and platform engineering team. Act as a strong voice for engineering craft and culture, and foster innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Alignment - Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Security, and Product leaders to plan and execute strategic infrastructure initiatives, including the compute and platform needs that support AI-powered features.

What We're Looking For

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• A seasoned infrastructure/platform engineering leader with a track record of building stellar teams.
• Many years of experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform engineering organizations, including leading through managers or directors.
• Deep technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud architecture.
• A track record of scaling infrastructure for consumer products at massive scale - from iterative reliability improvements to big-bet platform investments.
• Direct experience with, or meaningful involvement in, an organization's shift toward AI-native ways of working. Leading it isn't required, but you've seen it from the inside.
• A bias for speed - constantly pushing to try new things, and learning quickly from what doesn't work to find what does.
• Strong instincts for data - comfortable digging into cost, performance, and reliability metrics to spot what's working and what isn't, and using KPIs on reliability and cost efficiency to guide decisions.
• A background at companies known for engineering excellence and resilient, high-performing platforms.
• Strategic thinking paired with strong storytelling - the ability to motivate and inspire a team around a shared technical vision.
• A genuine conviction that robust, well-designed infrastructure is a competitive differentiator - the invisible foundation that makes great user experiences possible.
• A hands-on approach - comfortable delegating, but ultimately owns everything the team ships.
• A reputation for having tough, direct conversations while staying kind and respectful.
• Comfort with risk-taking and big swings, and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Alignment with our values: Be a Good Person; Be Direct, with Respect; Members Before Metrics; High Intensity, High Impact.

Nice to Have

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

Our 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 & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers

Life360 Values

Our company's mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust.
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it's hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.
• High Intensity, High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Our Commitment to Belonging

• We believe diverse perspectives make us better, and we're building a workplace that reflects the communities we serve.
• Don't meet every qualification?
• Apply anyway.

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