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.
Strava is growing its mapping and data processing team. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced cloud platform and geospatial engineer to strengthen the team with their expertise.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our Berlin office — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:Together with your team will take end-to-end responsibility for developing new features on Map Platform, following the full feature lifecycle.
Work closely with your fellow engineers and also Map Design, Product Management, and colleagues from other departments across multiple timezones.
Will be encouraged to discuss and challenge so that together we can share knowledge and experiences, always bettering ourselves as engineers to build and maintain the highest quality stack.
Will directly impact the product experience by building a rich and informative map platform for over a hundred million of users.
Developing and maintaining Strava’s mapping pipelines and geospatial service offering.
Work at scale in system and architecture level as well as in the weeds at an implementational and coding level.
Collaborating cross-functionally with other teams to solve business requirements.
Designing and implementing enhancements to current systems.
Identifying and delivering cost optimizations across our full map stack.
Maintaining high-availability services that report into monitoring and observability systems.
3+ years of experience in pipeline orchestration, more generally in Cloud Platform engineering and related automation. Ideally have experience in Kubernetes and AWS data storage, schema design and indexing.
You are familiar with site reliability concepts and general software architecture, you like to use them to drive your technical decisions.
Have experience with queue and/or DAG based data pipelines, ideally processing large volumes of data in the cloud.
Have a minimum of 3 years of working in the field.
Have a proven Golang expertise.
As the main aspect of our platform is about providing maps, we are ideally looking for someone with mapping expertise. Considering our map challenges, you may:
Have experience in working with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), use GIS extensions like PostGIS or similar.
Have experience in geospatial query development and spatial analysis as well as data storage.
Are well informed and frequently experiment with the latest geospatial technologies.
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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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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!
