Senior Engineer, Infrastructure and Tools

Job Description

• Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 120 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life. • 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’re excited about this opportunity because you: • Enjoy developing software that empowers your engineering colleagues, providing them with the tools and platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable products. • 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. • Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count. Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. • Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. • 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. • We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays • Generous Accrued Time Off increasing with years of service • Generous paid sick time • Annual day of service