iOS Build and Release Engineer
As a Mobile Build and Release Engineer on the Life360 Engineering team, you will help keep the Mobile
CI/CD pipeline running at top speed. We need smart and passionate engineers who are obsessed with
squeezing every bit of performance out of a build system and ensuring we safely deliver our apps to
market. You will work with app developers and test engineers to provide consistent, high-confidence
delivery through our CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities:
● Contribute to a team of Build, Infrastructure, Test, and Release Engineers focused on improving
developer velocity, scalability, and testability of Life360’s mobile apps.
● Build, maintain, and operate our mobile app CI/CD pipelines.
● Operate our build infrastructure, including working with vendor partners.
● Create the next-generation developer tooling and infrastructure for Life360’s mobile apps,
focusing on productivity, testing, and release.
● Track and monitor the usage/consumption of Infrastructure services; ensure performance and
SLA and cost control adherence.
● Develop telemetry and alerting for opportunities to improve build infrastructure and tooling, and
execute on them.
● Monitor and fix build pipelines identify bottlenecks, make improvements.
● Collaborate with leadership and key partners regularly.
● Build, package, verify, and deliver an SDK to be used by Life360 applications.
● Keep the build pipelines updated as newer versions of Xcode are released.
● Making developers happy and productive is at the core of your mission.
Minimum Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
● 4+ years of hands-on technical experience.
● Proficient in one system language like Swift and scripting languages like Python, Go, Ruby.
● Deep understanding of Xcode.
● Dependency management systems like Cocoapods and SPM.
● Experience with containerizing build workloads (We use Orka and MacStadium).
● Have experience configuring and using artifact management tools.
● GitHub
● Experience with developing automated internal frameworks, increasing developer and release
velocity, improving code health and building developer tools.
● Experience with CI/CD principles, architecture and operations.
● Working experience with CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins or other CI/CD platforms.
● Strong knowledge of iOS build systems, networking, log analysis tools, app release and
certificate management.
Preferred Qualifications
● Willing and eager to learn iOS Build and deployment.
● Experience packaging and shipping an SDK that is used by multiple apps.
● Experience with Fastlane deployment.
● Mobile App Distribution.
