Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Strava
$160-170k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
Open for applications
Social network for tracking run and cycle routes
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$160-170k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create the most committed, close, and engaged athlete community on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with a strong focus on cloud platform development
- Passion for building reliable, scalable, and observable platforms that empower engineering teams to move quickly and with confidence
- A track record of fully owning your work end to end, from architecture and implementation through ongoing maintenance and on-call support
- Proven ability to collaborate across engineering teams, driving adoption of platform standards and best practices without direct authority
- Familiarity with incident management tooling and a methodical, composed approach to diagnosing and resolving complex operational issues
- We're not looking for 100% coverage; if you match any of these qualifications, we'd love to hear from you:
- Experience with AWS or another cloud provider such as Azure or GCP
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Ruby, or Scala
- Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes at scale
- Experience with highly technical architecture and driving outcomes with automation through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps
- Experience in secrets management solutions (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Strong knowledge of network security including VPC design, service mesh (Istio), and zero-trust networking
What the job involves
- At Strava, we power the infrastructure that supports millions of athletes' journeys
- As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Foundation Team, you'll be a cornerstone of our platform, building reliable, scalable systems at every layer of our infrastructure while enabling teams to move fast and innovate fearlessly
- You'll balance engineering excellence with developer velocity, ensuring our platform remains both resilient and performant
- The Foundation Team is the backbone of Strava's engineering organization, providing the infrastructure, tools, and frameworks that power every feature our athletes love. In this role, you'll embed reliability and scalability into the foundation of our platform, from optimizing our Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure to building automated guardrails that make the right path the easy path for developers
- By architecting solutions that scale, you'll support the experiences of 150+ million athletes while enabling product teams to ship features with confidence
- You'll be both a builder and an enabler, creating tools that empower engineers, responding to emerging operational challenges, and partnering with teams across Strava to weave infrastructure excellence into our engineering DNA
- Create and operate the infrastructure that makes Strava possible, from data stores and the container platform to observability software and deployment tooling
- Develop software that empowers your engineering colleagues, providing them the tools and platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable products
- Find mentorship and growth opportunities with more experienced engineers on your team and beyond
- Demonstrating empathy for other engineers and thinking about how the platform enhances and enables their work
- Having an eye for detail and thoroughness, as you will work on the most important production systems at Strava
- Displaying ownership of your work by managing deployment and participating in an on-call rotation
Our take
Strava has created an online network where runners, swimmers and cyclists can record fitness activities, and compare and compete with their community. It offers both a free and premium subscription service with added features. The company also partners with local councils and urban planners who purchase valuable journey data from Strava which can be used to map out cities and develop safer cycle paths.
The platform helps members discover and plan workouts, as well as offering a leaderboard which is updated using GPS as users compete for the top spot on particular fitness segments.
With over 125 million athletes and growing, Strava released several new product rollouts in 2024, including an AI-enabled leaderboard. A partnership with the wearable fitness tracker Oura will mean Strava software is available on wearables, taking the company into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple. In 2025, the company secured new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital, growing its value to $2.2 billion.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2020
$110m
SERIES F
Oct 2014
$18m
LATE VC
Total funding: $151.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary & stock options
- 100% company paid benefits for employees and families
- Flexible paid time off
- $2,000 annual professional development stipend
- Paid time off for volunteering
- 401(k) plan - with company matching
- $1000 annual gear stipend
- $500 annual gym or coaching reimbursement
- On-site fitness rooms with showers, lockers, and towel service
- Weekly team workouts – including remote employees
- Safe and secure bike storage on-site
- Weekly all hands meetings
- Employee resource groups
- Anti-racism nonprofit company matching program
- Free lunch on Wednesdays on-site
- Regular team happy hours
- Team offsites and company retreats
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Generous industry discounts on gear and activities
- Race entries to events we sponsor
- Snacks and stocked kitchens on-site
- Strava gear
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
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