Senior Server Engineer I – Platform and Dev Productivity

Strava

Senior Engineer on Strava’s Foundation team, evolving core platform tools and frameworks. Empowering developers to work quickly and safely in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesPythonScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
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.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonJavaScriptScalaKubernetesCI/CDdeployment automationobservability toolstelemetry pipelinesmicroservices

Soft Skills

mentoringguidancecollaborationownershipproject management