About This Role

Strava is the leading social platform for athletes and the largest sports community in the world, with over 125 million athletes in 195 countries. If you sweat you’re an athlete, and Strava’s mobile apps and website connect millions of active people every day!

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.

This role will be based in our Berlin office with a hybrid in-office work requirement of at least 3 days per week. 

For more information on compensation and benefits, please click here.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• 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.

You will be successful here by:

• 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.

We’re excited about you because you:

• 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.

Some of our Technical Expectations

We’re not looking for 100% coverage; if you have experience in any of these technologies, 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 with Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects like ArgoCD, Istio and Karpenter
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry or Grafana

The best applications will highlight any relevant experience or passion in these areas, because we’d love to hear about it.

About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes our attitude and ambition: We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to build the most engaged community of athletes in the world. Every day, we’re searching for new ways to inspire athletes and make the sports they love even more fun. But it’s not only about achieving – we’re an inclusive team, dedicated to elevating each other and the members of our community. That balanced approach has helped us revolutionize our industry, and we’re just getting started. Millions of athletes are on Strava, millions more will come. When you’re ready for a challenge and a team that will support you along the way, join us.

Backed by Sequoia Capital, Madrone Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, and Go4it, Strava is expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. By joining our team, you will help push Strava forward in fresh, innovative ways. You will engage in interesting and challenging work that will improve the lives of our athletes every day. And in the same way that Strava is deeply committed to unlocking the potential of our athletes, we are dedicated to providing a world-class workplace where our employees can grow and thrive. Join us!

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.