Staff Software Engineer, Ads Engineering

Familiarity with AdTech ecosystems, including advertiser technologies or Real-Time Bidding frameworks, is highly desirable.

Experience Integrating 3rd party Demand & Supply partners, is a plus.

A track record of architecting and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at significant scale.

Demonstrated success scaling systems across data centers, including replication strategies and distributed data management.

Strong judgment in balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural sustainability.

Experience influencing technical strategy across teams without direct authority.

Competitive pay and benefits.

Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.

401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.

Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.

Learning & Development programs.

As a Staff Level Backend Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and developing robust ad servers and ad ecosystems that seamlessly integrate with third-party services.

You will be responsible for designing scalable and efficient backend systems that support high-volume ad transactions and deliver real-time performance.

Your expertise will drive the implementation of innovative features, ensuring optimal functionality and user experience.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will leverage cloud technologies to enhance system reliability and performance, while also addressing security and compliance requirements.

This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of digital advertising through cutting-edge solutions and strategic technical leadership.

Shape the technical direction of Life360’s Ads AdServer and Exchange platform, ensuring it scales reliably to support 20+ billion daily events with strict latency and availability targets.

Join us as we build the next evolution of our backend services to support Life360’s continued global growth. As part of the Ads team, you will help scale and modernize our AdServer and Exchange platform — a high-availability, low-latency distributed system processing billions of requests and events per day.

We are evolving our backend architecture to power monetization across our ecosystem at massive scale. You will partner closely with Architecture and Product teams to expand our advertising capabilities, integrate new demand and supply partners, and support 20+ billion daily events.

Together, we are building systems that are resilient under heavy load, horizontally scalable, and flexible enough to meet rapidly evolving product demands. As a Staff Engineer, you will guide technical direction while remaining hands-on, delivering reliable, high-performance Java-based services within AWS infrastructure that directly support Life360’s growth.

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 countries.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family).

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit

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Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.