Senior Server Engineer, Trust & Safety

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 190 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. 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're seeking a Senior Server Engineer to join our Trust and Safety engineering team. This team builds the tools, systems, and features that protect the integrity of our platform and ensure a safe, trusted experience for our global community. In this role, your work will have a direct and lasting impact, shaping the foundation of a platform where people can connect, share and thrive with confidence. We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to around half your time on-site in our Denver office—roughly three days per week. What You'll Do: Develop core Trust and Safety capabilities, such as user reporting and content moderation, content and behavior detection, and abuse prevention systems. Deliver back-end services in large, reliable, and scalable distributed systems. Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as product, design, analytics, and operations to deliver impactful and scalable solutions. Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers within a collaborative, supportive team. Using your in-depth knowledge of software to help drive technical conversations with peers from different backgrounds, across different teams. Contribute to a close-knit community in a flexible, hybrid work environment. What You'll Bring to the Team: 7+ years of proven experience building services in a production environment, using languages like Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go, or similar. Strong knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases for production, such as MySQL, Redis, or Cassandra. Familiarity with open-source distributed systems technologies, such as Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker. Experience or interest in developing Trust and Safety systems and infrastructure.

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.