Staff Server Engineer, Trust & Safety

Strava is seeking a Staff Server Engineer to join their Trust and Safety engineering team. The team builds tools, systems, and features that protect the integrity of the platform and ensure a safe, trusted experience for the global community. The role involves developing core Trust and Safety capabilities such as user reporting, content moderation, content and behavior detection, and abuse prevention systems. The engineer will deliver back-end services in large, reliable, and scalable distributed systems, collaborate with cross-functional partners including product, design, analytics, and operations, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and contribute to defining and implementing the technical vision for the team. The position requires experience with languages like Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go, or similar, knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Redis, or Cassandra, familiarity with open-source distributed systems technologies like Kafka, Finagle, Kubernetes, and Docker, and expertise in the Trust and Safety domain, particularly in abuse detection and mitigation. The role follows a flexible hybrid model with about half the time on-site in San Francisco (roughly three days per week).