About Strava

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. And with billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and audacious 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. And 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, 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.When you’re ready for a challenge and a team that will support you along the way, join us!

About this role

Every day, Strava collects massive amounts of information from athletes all over the world. Both our core business strategies and product vision are fueled by this data. We are looking for a data engineer to help us unlock the potential of our dataset and scale our analytics capabilities to support both internal customers and our athletes. You will be responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure and custom tooling to enable the next generation of features and analysis at Strava.

We'd love to talk to you about the future of Strava’s Engineering and your role in it. Please take a look at the links below to learn about the exciting work we are doing.

• The Engineering Blog covers a wide range of topics, from how we rebuilt our leaderboard systems to how we have refined our interview process.
• Strava Labs shows off some of our R+D efforts, and gives a sense of the power and scale of Strava’s datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and launch systems for storing, aggregating and analyzing large amounts of data
• Improve and maintain ETL infrastructure and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers
• Work with platform, web, and mobile engineering teams to ensure that data is available for reporting and analysis
• Uncover insights about our global community of athletes, both for internal and external consumption

About You

• B.S. in computer science, statistics, mathematics or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining software
• Experience building production-quality systems to work with large amounts of data
• Excellent programming skills in at least one language such as Scala, Python, Ruby, or Go
• Advanced SQL skills
• Experience with relational data stores such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and ideally one or more Key/Value, Columnular, or Time Series data stores (e.g. Redis, Cassandra)
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with open source technologies like Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, Mesos, and Docker

More About You

• Interest in building self-service foundational tools to empower internal customers with the wealth of insights available via our data
• Interest in driving the future of our streaming data architecture in support of data analytics, ML/AI teams, and product engineering
• Experience with ETL technologies such as Luigi, Airflow, or Azkaban

Backed by Sequoia Capital, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, Strava is expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. By joining our team, you will help push Strava forward in fresh, innovative ways. You will engage in interesting and challenging work that will improve the lives of our athletes every day. And in the same way that Strava is deeply committed to unlocking the potential of our athletes, we are dedicated to providing a world-class workplace where our employees can grow and thrive. Join us!

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.