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.
At Strava, the Foundation engineering team safeguards the infrastructure supporting millions of athletes. We build and enhance tools and systems that empower our developers, sales, and support teams, enabling them to deliver features confidently, safely, and efficiently. As a Senior Engineer on the Foundation team, you’ll shape and evolve Strava’s internal platform and admin tooling. You’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on modernizing internal tools for our customer support teams, improving their productivity and ability to deliver excellent athlete experiences.
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:As a Platform Engineer who is passionate about internal tools and developer enablement, you will:
Design, build, and modernize an internal admin portal that enables Strava developers, sales, and support teams.
Develop and maintain shared platform services, frameworks, and infrastructure to support multiple languages and runtimes (Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala).
Move common actions to the cloud, reducing friction from developer machines.
Improve internal systems, including license management, feature flags, and admin workflows.
Break down monolithic tools into smaller, manageable, and maintainable components.
Explore AI-driven tools to enhance productivity, security, and internal workflows.
Ensure internal tools follow best practices for security, privacy, observability, and compliance.
Drive adoption, standardization, and enablement, mentoring engineers and fostering cross-team collaboration.
Evaluate, integrate, or build developer infrastructure tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for internal teams.
Proven software engineering expertise; comfortable working across multiple languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, JavaScript) or able to learn quickly.
Experience designing, building, or maintaining internal tooling, shared libraries, or platform services.
Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), Terraform, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and infrastructure-as-code.
Ownership mindset, with the ability to drive initiatives end-to-end, mentor others, and influence cross-functional teams.
We're not looking for 100% coverage; if you match any of these qualifications, we'd love to hear from you:
Developer efficiency, internal tooling, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or automation experience.
Deployment automation, cloud services, and platform operations knowledge.
Experience leading adoption of internal tools and driving cross-team enablement.
Comfort working at the frontier of infrastructure and software development, exploring new tools, techniques, and approaches.
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
- Proven software engineering expertise; working across multiple languages
- Experience designing, building, or maintaining internal tooling
- Experience with cloud platforms, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code
- Ownership mindset with the ability to drive initiatives end-to-end
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!
