Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About This Role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, Strava is where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, we help you find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.

Our mission is simple: to motivate people to live their best active lives. We believe in the power of movement to connect and drive people forward.

At Strava, we protect the infrastructure that powers millions of athletes' journeys. As a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer on the Foundation Team, you'll be the guardian of our platform—building security into every layer of our infrastructure while enabling teams to move fast and innovate fearlessly. You'll balance security excellence with developer velocity, ensuring our platform remains both impenetrable and performant.

The Foundation Team is the backbone of Strava's engineering organization, providing the secure infrastructure, tools, and frameworks that power every feature our athletes love. In this role, you'll embed security into the foundation of our platform—from hardening our Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure to building automated security guardrails that make the secure path the easy path for developers.

By architecting security solutions that scale, you'll protect the data of 150 million athletes while enabling product teams to ship features with confidence. You'll be both a builder and a defender—creating tools that empower engineers, responding to emerging threats, and partnering with teams across Strava to weave security into our engineering DNA.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half your time on-site in our Denver office — three days per week.

What You'll Do:

• Create and operate the infrastructure that makes Strava possible, from data stores and the container platform to observability software and deployment tooling.
• Develop software that empowers your engineering colleagues, providing them the tools and platforms to deliver scalable, reliable, and observable products.
• Find mentorship and growth opportunities with more experienced engineers on your team and beyond.
• Demonstrating empathy for other engineers and thinking about how the platform enhances and enables their work.
• Having an eye for detail and thoroughness, as you will work on the most important production systems at Strava.
• Displaying ownership of your work by managing deployment and participating in an on-call rotation

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• 5 years of infrastructure engineering experience with at least 3 years focused on security engineering or DevSecOps
• Have a passion for the reliability, scalability, and usability of what you make.
• Have a history of fully owning your work, from designing and building to maintaining and being on-call
• Excellence in cross-team collaboration, with the ability to influence security practices without direct authority
• Strong incident response experience and ability to remain calm under pressure during security events

Some of our Technical Expectations:

We're not looking for 100% coverage; if you match any of these qualifications, we'd love to hear from you:

• Experience with AWS or another cloud provider such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Ruby, or Scala.
• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience with highly technical architecture and driving outcomes with automation through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps
• Experience in secrets management solutions (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Strong knowledge of network security including VPC design, service mesh (Istio), and zero-trust networking

Compensation Overview:

At 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 zones 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: $150,000 - $167,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package during the hiring process.

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Why Join Us?

Movement brings us together. At Strava, we’re building the world’s largest community of active people, helping them stay motivated and achieve their goals.

Our global team is passionate about making movement fun, meaningful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you’re shaping the technology, growing our community, or driving innovation, your work at Strava makes an impact.

When you join Strava, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a movement. If you’re ready to bring your energy, ideas, and drive, let’s build something incredible together.

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 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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