Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Strava
$150-180k
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
$150-180k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create the most committed, close, and engaged athlete community on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- Are excited to work on and support a platform that supports millions of athletes and activities every day
- Enjoy developing software that empowers your engineering colleagues, providing them with the tools and platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable products
- Enjoy working on the full cycle of automated testing, build, deploy, release, and operations across multiple platforms (mobile, frontend, backend, infrastructure)
- Will have a high-leverage impact on product development velocity by empowering all engineering teams to go faster and more optimally
- Love the thrill of sunsetting legacy software in favor of the latest and greatest industry supported options and championing best practices
- Are stoked to help shape the future of our Kubernetes ecosystem
- Have previously worked in an infrastructure, developer productivity, or operations-focused role, such as DevOps engineer, SRE, developer productivity engineer, or platform engineer
- We run on Kubernetes, Prometheus, MySQL, Cassandra, ArgoCD, and Terraform. You don’t need to be an expert in all of these but practical, production experience with some is highly desired
- Have a passion for reducing toil
- Have experience with modern principles of deploying software in containers across multiple teams
- Have experience with continuous integration environments, writing testable software, and test-driven development
- Program expertly in at least one language. If you know Scala, Python, or Ruby, that’s a bonus!
- Can improvise and adapt. Rote processes won’t always work here, so bring your bag of tricks
- Are a strong, clear, and proactive communicator who values sharing knowledge with others. We are a distributed company spread across many time zones, dependent on many forms of communication to collaborate and achieve our goals
What the job involves
- This role is on the Strava Foundation Team, which exists to provide tools, systems, and support to make Strava reliable, scalable, and performant for our athletes. We build infrastructure and tools to support every engineer developing Strava
- Engineers on the Foundation Team work on a wide variety of projects and technologies; recent projects have included migrating from Mesos to Kubernetes, migrating and upgrading from Cassandra to Scylla, and improving our disaster recovery capabilities
- You will be successful here by:
- Being highly self-motivated and self-starting, with exceptional attention to detail
- Having a product-approached mentality toward infrastructure and tools work - collaborating with users of your systems and building an efficient feedback loop across the whole engineering team and product
- Building empathy for your fellow engineers by developing a deep understanding of the product development process end-to-end
- Evaluating trade-offs and effectively prioritizing tasks for yourself and within your team, in alignment with tactical goals, strategic initiatives, and company objectives
- Seeking out engineering solutions to problems and eschewing toil
- Displaying ownership of your work by supporting your products 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 Strava into fresh competition with the likes of Peloton and Apple.
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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
Leadership
Mark Gainey
(Chairman)Having studied at Harvard, Mark started their career as a TA Associates Associate before co-founding Kana Communications and several Board Membership roles. They co-founded Strava in 2007, serving since as Chairman.
Michael Horvath
(CEO & Board Member)Michael co-founded Kana with Mark before working as an Economics Professor at Stanford and Dartmouth. They worked for 4 years as CFO of GlycoFi before co-founding Strava, serving initially as CEO and since 2017 as a Board Member.
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