• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience
• 2+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot
• 1+ years experience with relational or non-relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
• Understand microservices and their architectures
• Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with Kubernetes
• Communicates effectively with cross-platform teammates

Desirable

• The Horizons Cloud Engineering team is responsible for defining, building, and supporting the foundational cloud services that all developers at Life360 depend on
• This team consists of some of the most senior and trusted engineers at Life360 who are constantly thinking about scale and performance and how it will impact the millions of customers and families that depend on our services
• If you are looking to multiply your output, this is your team
• You’ll be working with a close-knit backend team of Cloud, PHP, Java, and Python engineers, all working closely to provide a best-in-class platform for developers to use
• This team works closely with our Staff engineers and other teams at Life360 to ensure solutions will perform at scale
• Work with other engineers to implement best-steps to decouple PHP monolith services into new Java microservices
• Horizontally scale our PHP platform to handle another 10+ billion events per day
• Work cross-functionally across teams to gain alignment on your or team's initiatives
• Monitor health, suggest/drive improvements for, and deploy your own services
• Maintain and improve service level objectives (SLOs)
• Collaborate closely with Senior engineers to build technical specs
• Help our Test Engineering team to further automate services and component validation
• Create and update automation suites to enable improved automation