Senior Server Engineer , Platform and Dev Productivity

Location

Strava SF

Full time

Hybrid

All Cost Centers, Technology, Engineering

• $180K – $200K
  • Offers Equity

This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package during the hiring process.

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area.

We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future.

For more information, please contact your talent partner.

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 the journeys of millions of athletes. We supply the secure tools, frameworks, and platforms that underpin every feature our athletes value.

As a Senior Engineer on Foundation, you’ll shape and evolve Strava’s core platform—empowering teams to move quickly and innovate boldly, crafting the developer experience for engineers across the company, building tools, partnering with teams, and enabling them to deliver features confidently and safely.

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.

As a Platform Engineer passionate about developer productivity, you will:

• Develop and sustain shared platform tools, frameworks, and infrastructure to support fast, secure development across various languages and runtimes (e.g. Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala, etc.).

• Reduce friction and boost velocity in developer workflows using code generation, templating, deployment pipelines, and shared libraries.

• Define, document, standardize, and enable guidelines for service platform usage and governance.

• Evaluate, integrate, or build developer infrastructure tools, such as CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, feature-flagging, internal dashboards.

• Mentor other engineers, provide guidance and support, help incorporate feedback from across the org, and foster a culture of shared ownership and collaboration.

• Proven foundation in software engineering. Comfortable working with various programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala), or a readiness paired with the ability to learn rapidly.

• Proven understanding of building, deploying, and operating distributed services in a containerized microservices cloud environment (e.g. Kubernetes).

• Experience designing, building, or maintaining developer tooling, shared libraries, or internal platform services.

• An ownership approach and an ability to drive projects end-to-end with minimal mentorship.

We're not looking for 100% coverage; if you match any of these qualifications, we'd love to hear from you:

• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing), telemetry pipelines, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure.

• Prior experience working in a polyglot platform or migrating a monolithic or single-language platform to a multi-language ecosystem.

• Background in developer efficiency, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or internal tooling.

• Experience with deployment automation, cloud services, and platform operations.

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