Strava
Staff Engineer, Core Services Platform
$225K–$278K
Strava SF +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
- Location
- Strava SF
Strava Denver - Experience
- 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and leads modernization of Strava’s social platform services, powering features such as the feed, photo and video sharing, experimentation, and notifications.
What you'll do
- Set the social platform’s technical direction and roadmap, balancing architectural investment with product delivery.
- Lead a small engineering pod, coordinate cross-team work, and mentor engineers.
- Modernize and design critical services to meet reliability, performance, and cost standards.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience, with a track record of setting technical direction.
- Experience leading multi-engineer technical projects and acting as a tech lead, including planning and roadmap development.
- Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale.
- Proficiency in at least one of Ruby, Scala, Go, or Java, and experience with distributed systems technologies, production databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with feed systems, social graphs, recommendation or ranking systems, or large-scale migrations.
- Familiarity with server-driven UI patterns.
Pay
$225K – $278K (base salary)
Tools
Ruby, Scala, Go, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes
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