Strava is the app for active people. With over 195 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 Role
Strava is hiring a Senior Engineer to join the Activities Platform team within Core Services. This team is responsible for the underlying services that power activity uploads, data processing, media, and activity storage; they own the foundational data layer that nearly every feature at Strava is built on. The team partners closely with product development teams, enabling and discovering the capabilities that will be on the roadmap: either immediately or long into the future. We apply a product-forward mindset to complicated platform and infrastructure work. Together we create the most reliable and performant ways for athletes to interact with their data — then inform what comes next.
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 and evolve the systems that power activity data at Strava — from upload ingestion through processing, storage, and serving
Design and build backend services that handle millions of activity uploads and the data pipelines that flow from them
Operate and improve critical production infrastructure, including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Partner with product teams across Strava to scope and deliver platform capabilities that unblock their roadmaps
Contribute to technical design reviews, write and review design docs, and participate in shaping the team's technical direction
Split your time roughly 50/50 between proactive platform investment and direct product-team support, adapting as priorities shift
You have 4+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent wisdom
A track record of writing software that runs well in production. You think about monitoring, rollout strategy, and operational health as part of your development process, not an afterthought
Solid backend/server engineering experience: you've built and shipped features or services in a production environment
Experience with distributed systems and the trade-offs involved in scaling them
Hands-on experience with data stores such as SQL or column stores. You understand what to use for data storage and why
Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Scala, Go, Java) with comfort picking up others.
Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
Ability to break down well-scoped problems, deliver projects from design through completion, and communicate clearly with engineers and cross-functional partners
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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
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Track record of writing software that runs well in production, including monitoring and rollout strategies
- Solid backend/server engineering experience building and shipping features or services
- Experience with distributed systems and scaling trade-offs
- Hands-on experience with data stores such as SQL or column stores
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Ruby, Scala, Go, or Java
- Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- Operate and improve production infrastructure, including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
- Ability to break down problems, deliver projects from design through completion, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners
- Willingness to follow a hybrid model with more than half time on-site in San Francisco (three days per week)
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!
