Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Strava
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
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
- 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
- Have a passion for the reliability, scalability, and usability of what you make
- Have a history of fully owning your work, from designing and building to maintaining and being on-call
- Love working on production systems
- Are security-minded when developing and working on systems
- 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 with Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects like ArgoCD, Istio and Karpenter
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry or Grafana
What the job involves
- This role is on the Strava Foundation Team, the team that builds and maintains the platform upon which the Strava backend runs
- Strava users upload roughly 40 million activities per week, for a lifetime total of over 5 billion activities handled by the platform and infrastructure that the Foundation Team maintains
- We are a team with a diverse skill set who work together on the infrastructure, libraries, and tools that make up the Strava service platform
- The service platform is used by all engineers at Strava for developing user features
- Engineers on the Foundation Team work on a very wide variety of projects and technologies; recent projects have ranged from re-architecting and upgrading our logging infrastructure to redoing our internal request routing and load balancer architecture for performance and ease of use
- 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
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Antiracism
- Authenticity
- Balance
- Craftsmanship
- Camaraderie
- Commitment
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
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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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