Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Platform

at Strava

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager, Internal Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $250,000 - $283,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading internal platform initiatives for Strava's engineering teams. Develops strategic direction and improves developer productivity within a hybrid team.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy for Internal Platform across Developer Platform (developer tooling, CI/CD, telemetry, etc) and Application Platform (shared protocols, conventions and language libraries), and translate it into a roadmap that unlocks every product team at Strava.
• Lead, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers through a phase of specialization, including growing tech leads for each pod and, over time, additional managers.
• Partner with product engineering leaders and Foundation peers to understand the biggest sources of friction in our development lifecycle and decide what Internal Platform should own, improve, or deprecate.
• Drive measurable gains in developer productivity, build and deploy reliability, telemetry coverage, and the quality of our shared application libraries.
• Raise the technical bar through thoughtful architectural decisions, clear review practices, and strong operational standards; build a team that takes pride in the systems it runs.
• Influence decisions outside your direct ownership area, bringing platform thinking into product team planning, architecture reviews, and cross-team initiatives.
• Balance hands-on technical involvement with people management, staying close enough to the technology to make informed architectural calls without becoming the bottleneck.
• Be a steward of long-term platform investments, weighing ambitious goals against reliability, cost, and the health of the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years managing engineering teams, including experience managing senior engineers and, ideally, tech leads or other managers, with a track record of growing engineers into stronger versions of themselves.
• Experience setting strategy for a platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity organization and guiding it through a phase of growth or specialization (for example, forming pods, carving scope, or evolving a team's charter).
• Strong technical background in platform engineering, developer experience, or foundational services, with the ability to lead architectural discussions and make informed calls on trade-offs.
• Demonstrated ability to influence outside your direct area by building partnerships with peer engineering leaders and shaping how other teams work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to paint a clear, compelling vision for a platform team and translate it into concrete commitments.
• A customer-centric orientation where the "customers" are the engineers who depend on your team; comfortable running the team like a product team with real users.

Benefits

• Offers Equity