Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 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. 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.At Strava, we empower teams to innovate by managing our infrastructure and cloud spend with care and accountability. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a key role in driving cost efficiency, optimizing cloud performance, and developing data-driven strategies that support both engineering execution and business growth.You’ll work closely with our platform, finance, and product teams to ensure our AWS infrastructure is scalable, high-performing, and cost-effective. Your contributions will directly shape how Strava scales, while promoting a culture of ownership, transparency, and financial responsibility across engineering.We follow a flexible hybrid model that generally translates to half your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.What You’ll Do:Lead our AWS FinOps strategy, analyzing usage data, identifying inefficiencies, and driving actionable insights.Build scalable tools and dashboards that provide real-time visibility into cloud spend, enabling teams to self-serve.Partner with engineering, finance, and leadership to align technical and financial goals.Automate guardrails, budgets, and best practices to promote cost-aware infrastructure management.Champion cost transparency and financial accountability in cloud infrastructure.Analyze large-scale systems to uncover inefficiencies and implement cost optimization strategies.Mentor engineers and develop tools that improve AWS cost and performance visibility.Collaborate with finance teams to translate technical metrics into clear financial reporting and forecasts.Want to build and scale a FinOps framework that empowers engineering and product teams to optimize infrastructure.What You’ll Bring to the Team:Experience having led or significantly contributed to a FinOps program, including cost allocation, forecasting, and optimization initiatives.Thrive in cross-functional collaboration, translating complex technical insights into actionable business recommendations.You are a strong communicator who can influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders to adopt best practices.Comfortability working with large data setsSome of our Technical Expectations:We’re not looking for 100% coverage; if you match any of these qualifications, we’d love to hear from you:6+ years in cloud infrastructure roles, with deep expertise in AWS.Strong understanding of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, networking), pricing models, and cost optimization strategies like rightsizing, reserved instances, and savings plans.Proficiency with reporting and visualization tools such as AWS Cost Explorer or Tableau to drive financial insights.Experience with SQL, Python, or other scripting languages to analyze data and automate workflows.Compensation Overview:At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.Compensation: $194,800 - $220,400. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.For more information on benefits, please click here .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.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.Interested in building your career at Strava? 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