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Join Strava's Trust and Safety Engineering Team and help safeguard the active lifestyles of millions around the globe
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Salary
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Location
Denver, CO
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Strava, meaning 'strive' in Swedish, is the leading subscription platform in connected fitness, uniting over 125 million athletes worldwide. With a mission to connect athletes to their motivations and capture the record of the world’s athletic activities, Strava offers an inclusive and diverse culture that values each stride of your journey. The company fosters an environment where employees thrive as much as the athletes using the platform, backed by renowned investors like Sequoia Capital, Madrone Partners, and Jackson Square Ventures.
- Role Summary:
- Define the future of Trust and Safety engineering at Strava.
- Engage in projects ensuring the safety of Strava's Athlete community.
- Contribute to a highly collaborative team with varied levels of experience.
- Develop core capabilities for a safer product.
- Enhance Trust and Safety features along with backend functionalities.
- Role Requirements:
- Prioritize tasks aligning with business goals and team objectives.
- Empathize with users' safety experiences on the platform.
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative team culture.
- Take full ownership of your work from start to finish.
- Possess experience building services in production environments.
- Have knowledge of databases and open source distributed systems technologies.
- Application Process Details:
- For detailed information on compensation and benefits, click here.
About This Role
Strava is the leading subscription platform at the center of connected fitness, with more than 125 million community members in over 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.
This role is on the Trust and Safety Engineering Team, which focuses on preserving the trust of our community. We work together on a set of tools, capabilities, and features that keep Strava in compliance with privacy and portability laws, enable detection and remediation of spam and abuse, and keep user data private. Our systems are used by other engineers and community management team members at Strava and are part of the fabric that keeps Strava functioning for our community members.
We are seeking a backend focused engineer with an interest in Trust and Safety engineering to join this impactful team. While the team has presence in both the San Francisco and Denver Strava offices, this role is for the Denver office.
This is a hybrid role based in our Denver Office.
For more information on compensation and benefits, please click here.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:
- Help define the future of Trust and Safety engineering at Strava
- Work directly on projects that are meant to keep our Athlete community safe
- Work on a highly collaborative team with a range of experience levels
- Build core capabilities that enable a safer product
- Work on Trust and Safety related product features in addition to backend capabilities
You will be successful here by:
- Thoughtfully prioritizing incoming requests based on business objectives and team priorities
- Demonstrating empathy for Strava users and their experience of safety on our platform
- Contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture
- Owning your work end-to-end
We’re excited about you because you:
- Are (or aspire to be) a champion of Trust and Safety principles
- Are excited to keep Strava a safe place for all community members
- Have built services in a production environment, using languages like (but not limited to) Ruby, Scala, Java, Python, Go, etc.
- Have experience with relational or NoSQL databases in production (we use MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra)
- Have experience with open source distributed systems technologies (we use Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker)
About Strava
Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.
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, 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 diverse 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.
