Role Overview
Join Life360 as a Staff Software Engineer, Ads Engineering (AI-Native) to shape the technical direction of our Ads AdServer and Exchange platform. You will drive architectural decisions, elevate the engineering bar, and enable revenue growth by integrating demand and supply partners and strengthening Real-Time Bidding and auction capabilities.
What You Will Do
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.
Why It Might Be a Fit
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced engineer who can drive technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and contribute to team processes and technical standards. You will work with AI as a first-class collaborator, orchestrating agents to scaffold services, generate IaC, draft schema definitions, and accelerate code review.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years experience and deep expertise in Java and multi-threaded system design
- Familiarity with AdTech ecosystems, including advertiser technologies or Real-Time Bidding frameworks
- Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices
- Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator - orchestrating agents to scaffold services, generate IaC, draft schema definitions, and accelerate code review
- Apply agentic workflows to reduce overall cycle time and operational overhead
- 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
- Proven ability to translate business objectives—particularly in advertising or monetization ecosystems—into scalable technical solutions
- Solid database expertise and a strong understanding of data consistency, performance trade-offs, and capacity planning
- Experience operating within cloud-native environments, ideally AWS-based infrastructures
- Feel comfortable with the entire client flow and how it interacts with the various business components (Admin, App, Analytics etc)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align engineering, prod