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Strava

Senior Data Engineer

Strava

. Design, build, and operate foundational data systems and shared data assets for analytical, operational, and business use cases .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure, with a strong focus on SQL, data modeling, and building scalable ETL/ELT systems. Proficient in developing reusable data engineering tools and frameworks while ensuring data governance and lifecycle management.

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Data EngineeringSQL ExpertiseETL/ELT SystemsData GovernanceCloud Infrastructure

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Hard Skills
Data ModelingETLELTData ProcessingData QualityData TransformationData ArchitectureProgramming (Python, Scala, Java, Go)Data IngestionData Lifecycle Management
Tools & Technologies
DbtAirflowSparkSnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryRedshiftKafkaFlinkKubernetes
Industry Keywords
Data LakeData WarehouseGDPRData GovernanceData LineagePII HandlingSchema ManagementIncremental ProcessingMonitoringAlerting

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesPythonScalaSparkSQLGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build, and operate foundational data systems and shared data assets for analytical, operational, and business use cases
  • Build and evolve scalable data ingestion and transformation frameworks across the data lake and data warehouse
  • Develop reusable data engineering tools and abstractions, including dbt-related frameworks and capabilities
  • Design durable domain data models for core business domains such as users, subscriptions, and activities
  • Build workflows supporting data governance, privacy, GDPR-related deletion, retention, access, and data lifecycle management
  • Improve data platform reliability and observability through testing, data quality checks, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling
  • Optimize large-scale data processing and storage for performance, maintainability, scalability, and cost
  • Partner with data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, data science, security, privacy, and infrastructure teams
  • Establish scalable data architecture and engineering standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 3–5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Software Engineering, or a related field
  • Experience owning production data systems
  • Strong expertise in SQL and data modeling
  • Experience with dimensional, normalized, or domain-oriented data models for large-scale analytical systems
  • Experience building and operating ETL/ELT and data processing systems using dbt, Airflow, Spark, or similar frameworks
  • Experience developing reusable tooling, frameworks, or abstractions for data pipelines and transformations
  • Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Scala, Java, or Go
  • Understanding of modern data warehouse and data lake architectures
  • Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or similar systems
  • Experience processing and transforming large datasets, including schema evolution, data normalization, deduplication, backfills, incremental processing, and data quality
  • Understanding of data governance and data lifecycle concepts including lineage, retention, deletion, access control, PII handling, and GDPR/privacy requirements
  • Experience implementing production-grade data quality, monitoring, alerting, testing, and observability
  • Ability to independently reason about data architecture and make sound technical decisions
  • Comfort working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience with Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, open table formats, data catalogs and lineage systems, schema management, CDC, or internal developer platforms is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • Benefits and total rewards programs
  • Reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities
  • Inclusive workplace where employees can grow and thrive