Staff Engineer, Application Security

About this role

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.

This role is on the Strava Security Team, which exists to protect Strava’s people, business, and data through integrated, proactive security practices.

We work across all security domains, including, but not limited to, product security, vulnerability management, incident response, infrastructure, network, governance, and enterprise security.

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:

• Are passionate about securing a platform that supports millions of athletes and the applications that power their experience
• Enjoy working closely with engineers to design, architect, and build secure-by-default systems from the ground up
• Will have a high-leverage impact by enabling product teams to ship features securely and confidently at scale
• Are excited to build tools, libraries, and review workflows that proactively identify and eliminate security risks
• Will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Security teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the SDLC

You Will Be Successful Here By:

• Being highly self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership over secure application design
• Partnering with developers to conduct architectural reviews, threat models, and security design consultations
• Building and maintaining reusable security components, libraries, and tooling to accelerate secure development
• Leading proactive security reviews and helping developers navigate secure implementation patterns
• Seeking practical, developer-friendly solutions that reduce friction without compromising on security

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Bring experience designing secure systems in cloud-native environments and understand modern software architecture patterns
• Have conducted application threat modeling, security design reviews, and provided hands-on guidance to engineering teams
• Have built or contributed to secure coding libraries, static analysis rulesets, or security CI/CD integrations
• Are comfortable working with languages like: Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar in a modern software development environment
• Stay current on security vulnerabilities and have a working knowledge of frameworks like OWASP Top 10, ASVS, and SLSA
• Are collaborative and pragmatic—able to influence teams through partnership, clarity, and domain expertise
• Communicate clearly and proactively across functions and time zones to align security and engineering goals

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: $246,400 - $288,400. 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.

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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.

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