Senior Server Engineer, Data Products

The role

You will build and operate pipelines and access layers that turn raw data, algorithms, and models into production-ready data products. You will work with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable data products and self-serve tools.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain pipelines, APIs, and platform tooling for derived data products.
• Build components of self-serve interfaces and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Drive projects end-to-end from pipeline design to production deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate model outputs into versioned artifacts.
• Partner with Data Platform on compute patterns and cost efficiency.
• Inform product teams on how to consume and leverage data capabilities.
• Explore and use fitness and geo datasets to extract insights and optimize features.
• Apply engineering rigor, versioning, contracts, and monitoring to data artifacts.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Establish best practices for data product development and operational health.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating complex, data-intensive backend systems in production at scale.
• Experience building access layers, platform tooling, or internal developer products for large scale data or ML systems.
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and batch/stream workflows using technologies like Spark, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, Snowflake, or similar.
• Proficiency in backend service development on cloud environments (AWS preferred) using Python, Scala, Go, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and containerized infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Ability to take technical ownership, make design trade-offs, and coordinate with collaborators.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Already an ML practitioner

About the company

Strava is the app for active people with over 200 million athletes in more than 185 countries. The company's mission is to motivate people to live their best active lives through movement.