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Strava

Staff Engineer, Core Services Platform

Strava
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14 days ago
Denver, CO, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$225k - $278k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction for Strava's social platform services.
  • Act as tech lead for a small pod of engineers, facilitating team processes.
  • Solve complex technical problems and lead teams to execute solutions.
  • Drive modernization and migration efforts for critical platform services.
  • Partner with product teams to inform the roadmap and identify needs.
  • Own a strategy for technical investment across the social domain.
  • Design, build, and review systems for Strava's most-used social features.
  • Mentor engineers on the pod and across the Strava tech team.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional backend/server engineering experience.
  • Experience leading technical projects with multiple engineers.
  • Proven experience as a tech lead, facilitating team processes.
  • Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Strava's backend languages (Ruby, Scala, Go, Java).
  • Experience with distributed systems technologies like Kafka and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases in production.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSDockerGoJavaKubernetesMySQLRedisRubyScala