Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

Engineering Manager, Identity 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 https://www.strava.com/subscription 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 Strava is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Identity team to operate in a 60/40 capacity as both hands-on engineer and technical leader. The role guides architecture and directly contributes code for authentication and authorization systems powering login, signup, abuse prevention, and core identity services across iOS, Android, and web. This position requires extensive backend infrastructure experience and strong technical expertise in building scalable platform systems that drive business impact. The leader will set technical direction while maintaining high coding standards, velocity, and engineering rigor. This is a platform engineering role within the broader engineering organization—not a traditional security or IAM specialist position. 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)