Senior Server Engineer, Next Sports

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 195 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

About This Role

Next Sports owns the foundational layer for how new and emerging sports live on Strava. From activity uploads and processing to storage and media, what we build is upstream of virtually every product feature on the platform. This hire directly enables the team to push into new territory, maintain reliability at scale, and build the server-side capabilities that unlock the next generation of sport experiences across Strava.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve the systems that power new and emerging sports on Strava, from how they are modeled and stored to how they are served across the app

• Design and build backend services that bring first class sport experiences to millions of athletes, shipping features that extend across the Strava platform

• Spend the majority of your time shipping product work for Next Sports, with opportunities to contribute to broader architecture decisions as the team scales

• Contribute to technical design reviews, write and review design docs, and participate in shaping the team's technical direction

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent wisdom

• A track record of writing software that runs well in production. You think about monitoring, rollout strategy, and operational health as part of your development process, not an afterthought

• Solid backend/server engineering experience: you've built and shipped features or services in a production environment

• Experience with distributed systems and the trade-offs involved in scaling them

• Hands-on experience with data stores such as SQL or column stores. You understand what to use for data storage and why

• Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Scala, Go, Java) with comfort picking up others.

• Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).

• Ability to break down well-scoped problems, deliver projects from design through completion, and communicate clearly with engineers and cross-functional partners

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Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

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. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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