Senior Database Engineer
Company: Strava
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
About This RoleStrava is the leading digital community for
active people with more than 125 million athletes, in more than 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 Strava Foundation Team,
which exists to provide tools, systems, and support to make Strava
reliable, scalable, and performant for our athletes. We build
infrastructure and tools to support every engineer developing
Strava.Engineers on the Foundation Team work on a wide variety of
projects and technologies; recent projects have included migrating
from Mesos to Kubernetes, migrating and upgrading from Cassandra to
Scylla, and improving our disaster recovery capabilities.This is a
hybrid role based in our San Francisco or Denver office.You're
excited about this opportunity because you:
- Are excited to work on and support a platform that supports
millions of athletes and activities every day.
- Enjoy developing software that empowers your engineering
colleagues, providing them with the tools and platforms to deliver
scalable, reliable, and observable products.
- Enjoy working on the full cycle of automated testing, build,
deploy, release, and operations across multiple platforms (mobile,
frontend, backend, infrastructure).
- Will have a high-leverage impact on product development
velocity by empowering all engineering teams to go faster and more
optimally.
- Love the thrill of sunsetting legacy software in favor of the
latest and greatest industry supported options and championing best
practices.
- Are stoked to help shape the future of our Kubernetes
ecosystem.You will be successful here by:
- Being highly self-motivated and self-starting, with exceptional
attention to detail.
- Having a product-approached mentality toward infrastructure and
tools work - collaborating with users of your systems and building
an efficient feedback loop across the whole engineering team and
product.
- Building empathy for your fellow engineers by developing a deep
understanding of the product development process end-to-end.
- Evaluating trade-offs and effectively prioritizing tasks for
yourself and within your team, in alignment with tactical goals,
strategic initiatives, and company objectives.
- Seeking out engineering solutions to problems and eschewing
toil.
- Displaying ownership of your work by supporting your products
and participating in an on-call rotation.We're excited about you
because you:
- Have previously worked in an infrastructure, developer
productivity, or operations-focused role, such as DevOps engineer,
SRE, developer productivity engineer, or platform engineer.
- We run on Kubernetes, MySQL, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Redis, S3,
and Terraform. You don't need to be an expert in all of these, but
practical production experience with some is highly desired.
- Have a passion for reducing toil, especially when it comes to
scaling relational databases.
- Program expertly in at least one language. If you know Scala,
Python, or Ruby, that's a bonus!
- Can improvise and adapt. Rote processes won't always work here,
so bring your bag of tricks, especially when it comes to talking
through the strengths and weaknesses of various datastore systems
(relational, distributed, in-memory, object stores, document
stores).
- Can explain complex technical concepts, like how indexes work
and how to approach a schema review. You should also be comfortable
navigating a poorly performing query and identifying optimization
opportunities.
- Are a strong, clear, and proactive communicator who values
sharing knowledge with others. We are a distributed company spread
across many time zones, dependent on many forms of communication to
collaborate and achieve our goals.About StravaStrava 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, 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 diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and
perspectives because we know we are a stronger team
together.Despite challenges in the world around us, we are
continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture,
and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist
company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach,
our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy
and inspiration to athletes' lives - now more than ever. All to
say, it's a great time to join Strava!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.
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Keywords: Strava, Vallejo , Senior Database Engineer, Engineering , San Francisco, California
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