What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer position at Strava?
About This Role
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.
This role is on the Strava Security Team, which exists to protect Strava’s people, business, and data through integrated, proactive security practices.
We work across all security domains, including, but not limited to, product security, vulnerability management, incident response, infrastructure, network, governance, and enterprise security.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:
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 tiers 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: $166,000 - $196,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.
For more information on benefits, please click here.
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.
California Consumer Protection Act Applicant Notice
Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. Start your journey with Strava today.
This role is on the Strava Security Team, which exists to protect Strava’s people, business, and data through integrated, proactive security practices.
We work across all security domains, including, but not limited to, product security, vulnerability management, incident response, infrastructure, network, governance, and enterprise security.
We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.
What You’ll Do:
- You are passionate about securing a platform that supports millions of athletes and their data every day
- Own the full lifecycle of vulnerability management—visibility, prioritization, and remediation—across a diverse tech stack
- Have a high-leverage impact on Strava’s risk posture by enabling timely, efficient, and measurable patching and hardening efforts
- You're excited to build automations and processes that eliminate manual toil and support continuous security improvement
- Collaborate across Engineering, IT, and Security to align technical execution with real-world risk reduction
- Leading efforts to identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities across endpoints, infrastructure, and SaaS systems
- Build scalable processes and automation for vulnerability ingestion, deduplication, enrichment, and routing
- Partner with Strava engineers and business teams to embed patching and configuration management into daily operations
- Prioritize engineering-focused solutions over manual processes, and continuously seeking ways to reduce friction
- Be highly self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a bias for action and strong ownership of outcomes
- Experience in vulnerability management, patch engineering, or endpoint hardening at scale in enterprise environments
- Know how to evaluate and act on vulnerability data using context, threat intelligence, and business impact—not just CVSS
- Have worked with tools like Tenable, AWS Inspector, CrowdStrike Spotlight, or similar platforms for risk identification and remediation
- Have collaborated with IT, SRE, and Engineering to implement automated patching, enforce baselines, or manage exceptions responsibly
- Are comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or similar to automate and integrate remediation workflows
- Are pragmatic and adaptive—able to troubleshoot blockers and move forward in ambiguous environments
- Communicate clearly and proactively, fostering alignment and accountability across teams in a remote, distributed company
- Bring experience in vulnerability management, patch engineering, or endpoint hardening at scale in enterprise environments
- Know how to evaluate and act on vulnerability data using context, threat intelligence, and business impact—not just CVSS
- Have worked with tools like Tenable, AWS Inspector, CrowdStrike Spotlight, or similar platforms for risk identification and remediation
- Have collaborated with IT, SRE, and Engineering to implement automated patching, enforce baselines, or manage exceptions responsibly
- Are comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or similar to automate and integrate remediation workflows
- Are pragmatic and adaptive—able to troubleshoot blockers and move forward in ambiguous environments
- Communicate clearly and proactively, fostering alignment and accountability across teams in a remote, distributed company
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 tiers 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: $166,000 - $196,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.
For more information on benefits, please click here.
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.
California Consumer Protection Act Applicant Notice
Salary : $166,000 - $196,000
