Senior Server Engineer I, Platform and Dev Productivity

Strava • San Francisco, CA

4h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Strava, the Foundation engineering team safeguards the infrastructure supporting the journeys of millions of athletes. We supply the secure tools, frameworks, and platforms that underpin every feature our athletes value. As a Senior Engineer on Foundation, you’ll shape and evolve Strava’s core platform—empowering teams to move quickly and innovate boldly, crafting the developer experience for engineers across the company, building tools, partnering with teams, and enabling them to deliver features confidently and safely. 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.

Requirements

• Proven foundation in software engineering.
• Comfortable working with various programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala), or a readiness paired with the ability to learn rapidly.
• Proven understanding of building, deploying, and operating distributed services in a containerized microservices cloud environment (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Experience designing, building, or maintaining developer tooling, shared libraries, or internal platform services.
• An ownership approach and an ability to drive projects end-to-end with minimal mentorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing), telemetry pipelines, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure.
• Prior experience working in a polyglot platform or migrating a monolithic or single-language platform to a multi-language ecosystem.
• Background in developer efficiency, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or internal tooling.
• Experience with deployment automation, cloud services, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain shared platform tools, frameworks, and infrastructure to support fast, secure development across various languages and runtimes (e.g. Go, Python, JavaScript, Scala, etc.).
• Reduce friction and boost velocity in developer workflows using code generation, templating, deployment pipelines, and shared libraries.
• Define, document, standardize, and enable guidelines for service platform usage and governance.
• Evaluate, integrate, or build developer infrastructure tools, such as CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, and, internal dashboards.
• Mentor other engineers, provide guidance and support, help incorporate feedback from across the org, and foster a culture of shared ownership and collaboration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed