Staff DevOps Engineer
Life360
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Life360 is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
About Life360Life360'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 visitlife360.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.About The TeamThe Horizons DevOps and Infrastructure team supports large-scale, data-intensive platforms that power real-time adtech and data science workloads across the organization. The team owns and operates critical infrastructure and data platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, and Kubernetes-based services, processing fifty billions of requests and tens of terabytes of data daily. Working closely with data engineering, data science, and security teams, the group focuses on building reliable, scalable, and automated systems that enable high-throughput data processing, analytics, and ML workflows. Team members take end-to-end ownership of production systems, influence architectural direction, and play a key role in evolving the platform as the organization integrates new technologies and scales further.About the JobWe are seeking aPlease mention the word **PORTABLE** and tag RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
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 visitlife360.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.
About The Team
The Horizons DevOps and Infrastructure team supports large-scale, data-intensive platforms that power real-time adtech and data science workloads across the organization. The team owns and operates critical infrastructure and data platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, and Kubernetes-based services, processing fifty billions of requests and tens of terabytes of data daily. Working closely with data engineering, data science, and security teams, the group focuses on building reliable, scalable, and automated systems that enable high-throughput data processing, analytics, and ML workflows. Team members take end-to-end ownership of production systems, influence architectural direction, and play a key role in evolving the platform as the organization integrates new technologies and scales further.
About the Job
We are seeking aPlease mention the word **PORTABLE** and tag RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Life360
Life360 is a company in the security industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.