Staff Server Engineer, User Lifecycle San Francisco, CA

Company: Strava
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 countries, it's more than tracking workouts-it's where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava's got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.This role is on the User Lifecycle team. We are responsible for the user's lifecycle by guiding from their signup process to their first upload and to a habit of continuous uploading on Strava.We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our San Francisco office-roughly three days per week.You're excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Partner with an Engineering Manager and Product to define the technical vision for the future of User Lifecycle at Strava.
• Work with a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build Strava's onboarding, login, and communication platform.
• Deliver backend services in large, reliable, and scalable distributed systems.
• You love to mentor other people in their technical growth while learning simultaneously.You will be successful here by:
  • Mentoring other engineers and up-leveling the organization by writing blog posts and giving tech talks about your work.
  • Demonstrating empathy for athletes and their experience while using Strava.
  • Owning the team's work and partnering with cross-functional peers to ensure services are adequately scoped and implemented.
  • Contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture.
  • Being willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone.We're excited about you because:
    • You have built services in a production environment, using languages like (but not limited to) Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go, etc.
    • You have experience with relational or NoSQL databases in production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra).
    • You have experience with open-source distributed systems technologies (we use Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker).
    • You have 7+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent wisdom.Compensation OverviewAt Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate's starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.Compensation: $210,000 - $230,000. The base salary posted is within the compensation range for this role. This range reflects base pay only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.About StravaStrava 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. 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 diverse 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.
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