Finance Staff Data Engineer, AI Native

About Life360

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 life360.com.

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) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy. 

About The Team

The Finance Data Team sits at the intersection of Finance & Accounting teams and Life360’s data. We provide the data ingestion / processing / reporting / egress needed by our partner teams in Finance & Accounting to enable their work and ensure SOX compliance with rigor. We push the envelope on how work is done through implementation of AI tools and capabilities to enhance our own pace of development and capabilities that we deliver to our stakeholders.

We are hiring a bar-raising Staff Data Engineer to drive our ingress / egress capabilities and build cross-cutting capabilities to drive developer experience and security. This role requires someone who can step into ambiguity, make sound architectural decisions, eliminate operational fragility, and establish an engineering discipline that others adopt.

You will serve as a technical reference point - shaping standards, influencing cross-team architecture, and driving initiatives to clear, production-ready outcomes. We value engineers who are direct, collaborative, and proactive in surfacing risks early, while helping build a team culture where high standards and psychological safety coexist.

About the Job

The Life360 Finance Data Team works as the integrator for numerous systems - bringing data into the Finance Data Warehouse, transforming it, and pushing it to its relevant destinations (reporting, data asset deliverables, tools, etc).  To support our role we are continuously building and enhancing our system - adding new data, new transformations, and new tooling to improve developer velocity and ‘buy down’ overhead costs associated with maintaining our system.

As a Staff Data Engineer you will drive forward the:

• Data ingestion suite - a mix of capabilities ranging from Fivetran to completely custom connectors that bring data into our warehouse and monitor for data quality.
• Data transformation suite - enhancing our dbt environment (dbt core) and the suite of tools that we leverage to build data models, semantic models, and other interfaces.
• Data egress suite - a mix of capabilities that allow us to push data to its end destinations.
• CI/CD pipelines and other tools / capabilities to enhance the developer experience and velocity.
• Infrastructure and networking behind our warehouse and related connectors.
• Databricks configuration and capabilities.
• Security posture and access controls.

The ideal candidate:

• They have spent years building out data platforms / infrastructure as well as creating ingress / egress data frameworks that are used in pipelines.  They have tackled numerous challenges and fo