Engineering Manager, Identity Platform (San Francisco)

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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.

About This Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager of our Identity team who will spend roughly 50% of their time coding and 50% leading. In this hybrid role, you’ll guide the technical direction of authentication and authorization systems that support iOS, Android, and web, while directly contributing code that ensures quality, velocity, and technical depth.

This position sits at the intersection of security, platform experience, and user trust. You’ll help build modern, reliable and secure identity foundations that improve login and signup flows, support abuse prevention, and power the next generation of Strava’s athlete experience.

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the technical roadmap for Strava's identity platform, including sign-up (Apple and Google Sign-In, web authentication standards), login, password management, multi-factor authentication, and account recovery flows with a unified user experience and security and technical requirements

• Design and scale a unified identity foundation that supports Strava Group’s portfolio of apps while ensuring seamless cross-application authentication and secure token handling. Drive its evolution to adopt modern standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys, biometrics).

• Architect, build, and maintain secure and scalable authorization and access control systems used by millions of athletes.

• Design and implement role-based and attribute-based access control systems that protect user privacy and support internal needs.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Security, Trust & Safety, and Legal to ensure compliance, safety, and platform integrity.

• Establish engineering best practices, high code quality standards, and operational excellence around identity services.

• Build consistency and feature parity across iOS, Android, and web identity experiences while respecting platform-specific patterns.

• Instrument, monitor, and improve authentication success rates, recovery completion, and overall account security.

• Influence the long-term technical strategy and product roadmap for identity at Strava Group, shaping the foundation for how athletes securely access their experience.

• Balance hands-on technical contribution with empathetic, clear, and consistent technical leadership.

• Demonstrate strong technical judgment and making pragmatic tradeoffs that optimize for security, performance, and user experience.

• Own and evolving technical architecture, implementation and operational excellence of Strava’s Identity platform unifying fragmented systems into a cohesive, scalable and secure foundation

• Create clarity and alignment across engineering, product, and cross-functional partners through excellent communication and influence.

• Establish reliable processes for execution, incident response, and continuous improvement within the Identity domain.

• Champion a culture of inclusion, mentorship, learning, and engineering excellence across the team.

• Use data, metrics, and experimentation to guide decisions and continuously improve authentication, authorization, and account health outcomes.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• You have experience building identity systems that serve a portfolio of applications, and you understand the nuances of token management, session continuity, and cross-app authentication.

• You have deep experience building and operating authentication, authorization, and account security systems at scale, using modern identity protocols and best practices.

• You’re skilled at designing secure, low-friction login, signup, and recovery flows that balance user convenience with robust protection against abuse.

• You have a track record of leading teams through complex identity challenges—from session management to MFA, passkeys, RBAC/ABAC models, and platform consistency.

• You think holistically about identity as a foundation for trust, safety, privacy, and growth, and you can translate this vision into clear technical strategy and execution.

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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.