Sr Engineer I, Platform & Dev Productivity

Strava; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fitness technology company is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Foundation team to build and maintain shared platform tools and frameworks. You'll work on improving developer productivity and collaboration in a hybrid work model from the San Francisco office. Ideal candidates possess a strong foundation in software engineering across various programming languages and have experience in containerized microservices. This role emphasizes mentorship and project ownership, contributing to a dynamic engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven foundation in software engineering with various programming languages.
• Experience in distributed services within a containerized microservices cloud environment.
• Ability to drive projects end-to-end with minimal mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain shared platform tools and frameworks for various languages.
• Reduce friction and boost developer workflows.
• Mentor engineers and foster a collaborative culture.

Skills

Software engineering

Programming languages (Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala)

Containerized microservices

Developer tooling

Ownership and project management

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Monitoring and alerting infrastructure

Job description

About Strava

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 Role

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.

What You’ll Do:

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.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 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.

Some of our Technical Expectations:

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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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.