Map Platform Engineer
Company Overview
About StravaStrava 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.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Together with your team will take end-to-end responsibility for developing new features on 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.
- 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.
- Will directly impact the product experience by building a rich and informative map platform for over a hundred million of users.
- Developing and maintaining 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.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with other teams to solve business requirements.
- Designing and implementing enhancements to current systems.
- Identifying and delivering cost optimizations across our full map stack.
- Maintaining high-availability services that report into monitoring and observability systems.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 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 a 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.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Remote: False
Salary & Benefits
Compensation Range: €87K - €93K For more information on benefits, please click here.
Equal Opportunity Statement
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
