Map Platform Engineer

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. 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.

Strava is growing its mapping and data processing team. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced cloud platform and geospatial engineer to strengthen the team with their expertise.

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

What You’ll Do:

• Together with your team, you will take end-to-end responsibility for developing new features on the Map Platform, following the full feature lifecycle.
• Work closely with your fellow engineers and also Map Design, Product Management, and colleagues from other departments across multiple timezones.
• You will be encouraged to discuss and challenge so that together we can share knowledge and experiences, always bettering ourselves as engineers to build and maintain the highest quality stack.
• You will directly impact the product experience by building a rich and informative map platform for over a hundred million users.
• Develop and maintain Strava’s mapping pipelines and geospatial service offering.
• Work at scale in system and architecture level as well as in the weeds at an implementational and coding level.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to solve business requirements.
• Design and implement enhancements to current systems.
• Identify and deliver cost optimizations across our full map stack.
• Maintain high-availability services that report into monitoring and observability systems.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 3+ years of experience in pipeline orchestration, more generally in Cloud Platform engineering and related automation.
• Ideally, have experience in Kubernetes and AWS data storage, schema design, and indexing.
• You are familiar with site reliability concepts and general software architecture; you like to use them to drive your technical decisions.
• Have experience with queue and/or DAG based data pipelines, ideally processing large volumes of data in the cloud.
• Have a minimum of 3 years of working in the field.
• Have proven Golang expertise.
• As the main aspect of our platform is about providing maps, we are ideally looking for someone with mapping expertise.
• Considering our map challenges, you may have experience in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), use GIS extensions like PostGIS or similar.
• Have experience in geospatial query development and spatial analysis as well as data storage.
• Are well informed and frequently experiment with the latest geospatial technologies.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Platform Engineering
• Geospatial Data Processing
• Golang Development
• Pipeline Orchestration
• Kubernetes Management
• AWS Data Storage
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Spatial Analysis
• Site Reliability Engineering
• System Architecture Design