Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

We are seeking an experienced staff software engineer to help grow and mature our data platform as Strava scales. Data is a critical driver of decisions that benefit both our athletes and the business. The Strava Data Platform serves as the foundation for this decision-making process, supporting every part of the company through infrastructure enabling rich data analysis. We strive to build a platform that enables self-service for a variety of use cases while maintaining strong governance and reliability.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco location — roughly three days per week.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Be a technical leader of a diverse team of engineers to enable data insights at Strava.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams excited about solving data problems while maintaining accessibility, security, and governance.
• Architect and optimize our existing data pipelines and infrastructure to improve performance and reliability.
• Take part in helping shape the long term technical landscape of our data platform to support the global scale of Strava.

You will be successful here by:

• Mentoring other engineers and providing technical guidance across teams, taking part in an inclusive team culture.
• Building scalable software solutions to existing data problems utilizing modern data technologies.
• Writing high quality and reliable code that supports our end user experience.
• Understanding that data security and privacy is of utmost importance.
• Holding empathy for the users of our platform to truly understand the challenges we address for them.

We’re excited about you because:

• Have the ability to adapt and apply evolving data technologies to business needs.
• Have a strong background in developing software using programming languages like Python, Scala, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.
• Have sufficient familiarity to understand SQL queries in the context of data pipelines (i.e. dbt).
• Have experience with distributed data tools (i.e. Spark, Flink, Kafka) on large datasets.
• Have worked with cloud-data warehouses (i.e. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or other warehousing solutions.
• Have an understanding of underlying infrastructure needed to serve production services (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure).

Compensation Overview:

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 tiers 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.

Compensation: $210,000 - $230,000. The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

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About Strava

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. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous 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. 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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

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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