VP, AI-Native Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Life360; United States; Remote; USD 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance (100

Job summary

Life360 is seeking an experienced VP of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the platform, systems, and infrastructure that power our products. You will shape the technical strategy to scale toward 2028 goals of 150M MAU and $1B+ revenue, while guiding the engineering org to adopt AI-native practices.

You will define an infrastructure vision, build self-service tooling, and ensure reliability at scale. You will recruit and mentor a high-impact team and partner with cross-functional leaders to

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 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 through managers or directors.
• Deep technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud architecture.
• Experience scaling infrastructure for consumer products at massive scale with strong reliability focus.
• Experience with AI-native workflows and moving organizations toward AI-native ways of working.
• Bias for speed and willingness to take calculated risks.
• Strong data instincts with KPI-driven decision making.
• Experience at engineering-centric, high-performing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute an infrastructure vision aligned with Life360's goals.
• Build pipelines, internal tooling, and self-service platforms to accelerate delivery.
• Maintain reliability, uptime, latency, observability, and disaster recovery at scale.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class infra team and foster engineering craft.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Security, and Product leaders on strategic initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Leadership

AI-native experience

Cost optimization

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Life360 is seeking an experienced VP of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the platform, systems, and infrastructure that power our products. You will shape the technical strategy to scale toward 2028 goals of 150M MAU and $1B+ revenue, while guiding the engineering org to adopt AI-native practices.

You will define an infrastructure vision, build self-service tooling, and ensure reliability at scale. You will recruit and mentor a high-impact team and partner with cross-functional leaders to