Database Administrator @ Life360
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About Life360
Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Their mobile app and tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about through location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. With over 88 million monthly active users across 180+ countries, Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life.
About The Team
The DBA team is responsible for maintaining, creating, and monitoring a wide variety of database systems. Managing both relational and NoSQL databases, the team ensures high availability, performance, and data integrity while embracing Infrastructure as Code for automated workflows. Collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are key.
About The Job
Life360 is seeking an experienced and proactive Database Administrator to manage modern database systems across the organization. The role involves maintaining database performance, building self-service tools, and enhancing observability through scripting and AI-driven automation.
What You’ll Do
- Manage health, performance, and scalability of production databases.
- Configure and maintain dashboards and alerts using DataDog, Grafana, and Cloudwatch.
- Leverage Atmos and Git for infrastructure automation.
- Design and implement automation scripts and AI-driven tools.
- Ensure database security, availability, disaster recovery, and compliance.
- Collaborate with developers and DevOps for CI/CD workflows.
- Provide expertise in AWS-native databases, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience in production environments.
- Expertise in SQL optimization, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and replication with MySQL.
- Strong proficiency in AWS database services including Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- Experience with MongoDB and Apache Cassandra in high-volume setups.
- Knowledge of Atmos, Git, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Proficient in Linux/Unix, scripting (Bash, Python), and automation tasks.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation.
Our Benefits
Competitive pay and benefits including a broad health package, RRSP matching, flexible PTO, company shutdowns, learning programs, remote equipment support, and exclusive Life360 memberships and products.
Life360 Values & Commitment to Diversity
Life360 values integrity, direct communication, members before metrics, and high impact results. They foster an inclusive, diverse culture and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to join their mission-driven team.
Key skills/competency
- Database Administration
- AWS
- Automation
- NoSQL
- SQL Optimization
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Monitoring
- Scripting
- Performance Tuning
- Cloud Technologies
How to Get Hired at Life360
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research Life360's culture: Review mission, values, and employee reviews.
- Customize your resume: Highlight AWS, automation, and DBA skills.
- Showcase technical projects: Include monitoring and scripting experiences.
- Prepare for interviews: Practice SQL, infrastructure, and automation questions.