Software Engineering, Intern, Server, Data Platform

About Strava

Strava is the app for active people. With over 180 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it’s more than tracking workouts—it’s where people make progress together, from new habits to new personal bests. No matter your sport or how you track it, Strava’s got you covered. Find your crew, crush your goals, and make every effort count. 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.

About This Role

As an Engineering Intern at Strava, you will be embedded in a team working on real projects that ship to our athletes and within the company, treated like a full-time member of the engineering team. You'll collaborate with cross functional teams that help us support and deliver to our athletes faster, while keeping them inspired and motivated.

We’ll give you experienced mentors and all the tools you need to make a meaningful impact on our product. To see examples of what past interns have contributed, read our Engineering Blog!

Available Internship:

Strava is looking for software engineering interns for a range of disciplines. This Server internship would be on the Data Platform team. The data platform team is responsible for infrastructure that enable teams throughout Strava to access, analyze, and act on data reliably and efficiently. The team's focus is creating scalable, robust services and tooling that empower others to build their own analytics and data products without worrying about the underlying complexity.

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

What You'll Do:

• Learn from engineers across teams who hold deep curiosity for data and are passionate about building robust infrastructure.

• Gain hands-on experience with production data systems at the global scale of Strava, supporting analytics, AI/ML, engineering, marketing, and finance teams.

• Contribute to meaningful projects that deliver value through software, tooling, and automation rather than manual work.

• Develop your skills in modern data technologies and the steadily evolving data platform ecosystem.

What you'll bring to the team:

• Are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with an expected graduation date of May 2026, December 2026, or May 2027 — OR– have recently completed or are currently enrolled in a coding bootcamp, technical training program, or are transitioning into software engineering through equivalent practical experience.

• You write clean, well-tested code and are receptive to feedback and mentorship.

• You have experience writing code in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar) and demonstrate strong fundamentals in coding best practices, documentation, and testing.

• You are comfortable working with SQL and are curious about how data transformations and pipelines operate in production environments.

• You have exposure to data or cloud technologies through coursework, internships, or personal projects (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar tools).

• You are interested in building scalable software and infrastructure that supports analytics, AI/ML, and data-driven decision making.

• You understand why data security and privacy matter deeply to our users and our business.

• You are collaborative, curious, and eager to learn from feedback and mentorship in a fast-moving engineering environment.

• You have experience using version control systems (e.g., Git) in a collaborative setting.

• If you don’t meet every single qualification but are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

The Summer Internship Program:

• This is a paid internship and the program will be based in our San Francisco, CA office with a hybrid office attendance requirement of 4 days per week

• Housing Stipend for Summer is provided to live in SF for 3 months

• Length of program: 10-12 weeks (Summer 2026 roughly June through August).

• Working Hours: 40 hours per week

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.