Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.
Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.
About This RoleStrava is seeking for an Engineering Manager for the Identity team — operating 60/40 as hands-on engineer and technical leader. You'll own authentication and authorization systems covering login, signup, abuse prevention, and core identity services across iOS, Android, and web. This is a platform engineering role, not a security or IAM specialist position.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:Own the technical roadmap for Strava's identity platform: sign-up (Apple/Google Sign-In), login, MFA, password management, and account recovery
Design and scale a unified identity foundation across Strava Group's app portfolio, adopting modern standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys)
Build and maintain secure, scalable authorization and access control systems (RBAC/ABAC) used by millions of athletes
Partner with Product, Security, Trust & Safety, and Legal to ensure compliance and platform integrity
Drive consistency across iOS, Android, and web identity experiences
Monitor and improve authentication success rates, recovery flows, and account security
Lead with strong technical judgment, balancing hands-on contribution with clear technical leadership
Establish best practices, operational excellence, and a culture of inclusion and mentorship
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
2-3 years of management/people leadership experience.
Experience building and operating authentication, authorization, and account security systems at scale
Familiarity with modern identity protocols and cross-app token management, session continuity, and MFA
A track record of leading teams through complex identity challenges (passkeys, RBAC/ABAC, platform consistency)
Ability to balance user experience with robust abuse protection
A holistic view of identity as a foundation for trust, safety, privacy, and growth
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Why Join Us?Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.
Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.
When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.
Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.
Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Skills Required
- Experience building identity systems for applications
- Experience operating authentication and authorization systems at scale
- Proven ability to design secure login and recovery flows
- Experience managing teams through identity challenges
- Holistic understanding of identity in trust and privacy contexts
Strava Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Strava and has not been reviewed or approved by Strava.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive and compensation is broadly viewed as fair, even if not consistently at the very top of the market. Overall satisfaction appears stronger when factoring in cash pay and benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is often described as fully covered for employees and families, standing out as a core strength of the package. This reduces out-of-pocket costs while supporting comprehensive medical, dental, and vision access.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness-oriented perks such as health club support, event entry reimbursements, and gear or home-office stipends are highlighted as meaningful. These benefits align closely with an active, athlete-focused culture and add tangible value beyond salary.
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What We Do
Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. And with billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and audacious vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count. Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. And just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community – we are continuously striving to hire and engage diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.When you’re ready for a challenge and a team that will support you along the way, join us!
