Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
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
We are seeking a senior software engineer to help grow 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 translates to more than half your time on-site in our San Francisco location — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:
Collaborate with people across teams and functions that hold deep curiosity for data.
Work with hefty data systems at the global scale of Strava, supporting functions including analytics, AI/ML, engineering, and finance, and help strengthen our infrastructure as we grow.
Deliver value more through software, leaning into tooling and automation rather than repetitive toil.
Grow your expertise in the steadily evolving technologies and ecosystem of data.
You Will Be Successful Here By:
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.
Fostering an inclusive and motivating team culture to help everyone achieve their best.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
Have 3+ years of experience developing data-intensive software using languages like Python, Scala, Java, Go, or Ruby, with the ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies as business needs evolve.
Be comfortable reading and reasoning about SQL queries in data pipeline contexts (e.g., dbt models), understanding how transformations impact downstream systems.
Have hands-on experience working with distributed data processing tools (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka) on production datasets, with an understanding of their tradeoffs and appropriate use cases.
Have built or maintained data pipelines using cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), Data lakes (e.g., Iceberg, Hudi) or similar solutions, understanding performance optimization and cost considerations.
Understand the underlying infrastructure needed to serve production data platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure), including experience deploying and managing data infrastructure components like clusters, storage systems, and compute resources.
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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.