Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team focused on building and optimizing data pipelines and data models that enable best-in-class data science, analytics, and self-service business intelligence. You will be instrumental in realizing our vision that key decisions and products at Strava are greatly enriched with data to benefit athletes and the business. This role requires a balance of people leadership, technical oversight, and individual contribution to set the strategic direction for our core data assets. You will partner tightly with Analytics, Data Science, and Data Platform teams across the company.

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

What You’ll Do:

• Act as the player-coach for our Data Engineering function, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Define the long-term vision and technical roadmap for Strava’s core data platform, including the development of scalable, robust, and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Drive initiatives to significantly improve the quality, integrity, and availability of Strava’s data assets, implementing best-in-class monitoring and alerting systems.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, and Product teams to enable advanced data consumption, experimentation, and self-service business intelligence across the company.
• Represent the Data Engineering team in cross-functional strategic planning and collaborate with the broader data community to elevate our technological craftsmanship and data governance standards.

You Will Be Successful Here By:

• Translating the company's business objectives into a compelling technical strategy for the Data Engineering team, ensuring all data infrastructure supports business relevance.
• Prioritizing and driving execution of projects that significantly improve the scalability, efficiency, and extensibility of our data models and systems.
• Serving as a key technical and organizational mentor for your team, guiding them on complex architectural decisions and best practices for modern data development.
• Proactively anticipating the data needs of a rapidly growing platform, fostering a culture that prioritizes data integrity, security, and privacy.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• You have 7 years of experience in data engineering, data platform, or a related quantitative domain.
• You have 3 years of experience leading and mentoring high-performing data engineering teams.
• You are an advanced user of SQL and have developed production-grade data pipelines using languages like Python, Scala, or Java.
• You have deep experience implementing and maintaining modern ETL/ELT orchestration systems (e.g., Airflow, dbt) and cloud data infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, GCP).
• You have a strong track record of driving data quality, governance, and the implementation of tools for data cataloging and monitoring.
• You understand underlying infrastructure and engineering best practices (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD, software development lifecycle) with the ability to influence architectural decisions.

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: $255,000 - $271,000. 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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