Staff Security Operations Engineer

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 97.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of March 31, 2026, 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 AI Native 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 Information Security and Technology team is responsible for keeping Life360 safe — our systems, our employees, and the tens of millions of families who trust us with their location data. That obligation is the starting point. How we meet it is what makes this team different. We are builders. Security controls that don't get used aren't controls. Compliance programs that create friction without reducing risk aren't programs. We build things that work in production, earn adoption from engineering teams, and get better over time — and we use AI to do it at a scale a traditional team couldn't. We're also at an inflection point. Life360 is deploying agentic systems into how we build and operate, and the security and governance implications of that are still being worked out — by us, and by the industry. The threat surface is expanding. The compliance frameworks are catching up. The people on this team aren't waiting for either. About the Job We're hiring a Staff Security Operations Engineer to define and lead Life360's next-generation security operations program. This is a technical leadership role for someone who sets direction, raises the bar on the engineers around them, and builds the systems they design. We're building security operations the way they should work in 2026 — AI-native from day one. The foundation of that is a mature, high-fidelity security observability platform: the telemetry pipelines, detection surfaces, and data infrastructure that make everything else possible. Getting that foundation right is the prerequisite. What we build on top of it is what makes this role different from any SecOps job you've held before. The end state we're building toward is one where AI is a genuine operational partner — surfacing anomalies, supporting threat hunting, taking autonomous action on lower-criticality events where we have confidence in the outcome, and orchestrating response workflows that would otherwise require human hands at every step. AI agents handle triage, enrichment, and correlation. Humans focus on judgment calls and high-stakes decisions. Detection and response is treated as a software engineering discipline with measurement, quality loops, and safe rollout patterns. If you've been waiting for a role where you set the technical direction rather than execute someone else's, this is it. We use AI tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice.  Daily use: You use AI tools for real, substantive work — analysis, drafting, automation, code, investigations, evidence gathering.  Judgment and ownership: AI-generated work gets the same scrutiny you'd give any human-produced artifact. You're accountable for everything you ship. Domain-specific judgment: You know where AI is the wrong tool. Sensitive data handling, attacker-controlled inputs, agents with production access, and privileged identity changes all need careful guardrails — and you can articulate where AI helps, where it hurts, and where it needs a human in the loop. Leverage: When AI is working well, you take on problems that would otherwise require a larger team. We hire people who use that leverage to ship better outcomes, not just faster ones. Continuous learning: The tooling moves fast. You stay current, share what works with the team, and speak up when something would meaningfully change how we operate. The US-based salary range for this position is $149,000 to $271,500. We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary - therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity. What You’ll Do Own the roadmap for detection and response. The platform decisions, the architecture decisions, the build-versus-buy calls — you make them, and you defend them. Build and mature the security observability platform. Own the security telemetry layer across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and AI-native systems. Partner with Data Platform on the SIEM and data lake foundation that makes all of it queryable and scalable. Deploy AI agent