Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Platform

Strava

Senior Engineering Manager leading internal platform initiatives for Strava's engineering teams. Develops strategic direction and improves developer productivity within a hybrid team.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $250,000 - $283,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the strategy for Internal Platform across Developer Platform (developer tooling, CI/CD, telemetry, etc) and Application Platform (shared protocols, conventions and language libraries), and translate it into a roadmap that unlocks every product team at Strava.
Lead, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers through a phase of specialization, including growing tech leads for each pod and, over time, additional managers.
Partner with product engineering leaders and Foundation peers to understand the biggest sources of friction in our development lifecycle and decide what Internal Platform should own, improve, or deprecate.
Drive measurable gains in developer productivity, build and deploy reliability, telemetry coverage, and the quality of our shared application libraries.
Raise the technical bar through thoughtful architectural decisions, clear review practices, and strong operational standards; build a team that takes pride in the systems it runs.
Influence decisions outside your direct ownership area, bringing platform thinking into product team planning, architecture reviews, and cross-team initiatives.
Balance hands-on technical involvement with people management, staying close enough to the technology to make informed architectural calls without becoming the bottleneck.
Be a steward of long-term platform investments, weighing ambitious goals against reliability, cost, and the health of the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years managing engineering teams, including experience managing senior engineers and, ideally, tech leads or other managers, with a track record of growing engineers into stronger versions of themselves.
Experience setting strategy for a platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity organization and guiding it through a phase of growth or specialization (for example, forming pods, carving scope, or evolving a team's charter).
Strong technical background in platform engineering, developer experience, or foundational services, with the ability to lead architectural discussions and make informed calls on trade-offs.
Demonstrated ability to influence outside your direct area by building partnerships with peer engineering leaders and shaping how other teams work.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to paint a clear, compelling vision for a platform team and translate it into concrete commitments.
A customer-centric orientation where the "customers" are the engineers who depend on your team; comfortable running the team like a product team with real users.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform engineeringdeveloper experiencearchitectural decisionsCI/CDtelemetryapplication librariesinfrastructuredeveloper productivitycoding practicestechnical strategy

Soft Skills

people managementteam leadershipcommunicationinfluencecustomer-centric orientationstrategic thinkingcollaborationmentorshipproblem-solvingvision articulation