Senior Engineer, Detection & Response

About this role

Strava is the app for active people. With over 150 million athletes in more than 185 countries, Strava is where connection, motivation, and personal bests thrive. No matter your activity, gear, or goals, we help you find your crew, crush your milestones, and keep moving forward. 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.

This role is on the Strava Security Team, which exists to protect Strava’s people, business, and data through integrated, proactive security practices.

We work across all security domains, including, but not limited to, product security, vulnerability management, incident response, infrastructure, network, governance, and enterprise security.

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:

• Are passionate about protecting a platform that supports millions of athletes by ensuring threats are detected and incidents are managed quickly and effectively
• Enjoy working closely with engineering and security partners to design and optimize detection capabilities and response workflows
• Will have a high-leverage impact by driving how Strava leverages managed detection and response services, ensuring speed, accuracy, and visibility into threats
• Are excited to write detection scripts, automate investigation and response workflows, and strengthen our incident management playbooks
• Will collaborate across Security, Legal, and Engineering to ensure incidents are handled consistently, efficiently, and with strong communication

You Will Be Successful Here By:

• Being highly self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership for Strava’s detection and response program
• Managing the relationship with Red Canary and tuning their services to Strava’s needs
• Serving as the primary point of contact for security incidents during business hours and acting as the incident manager when escalations occur
• Participating in on-call rotations during off-hours and ensuring effective handoffs across time zones and teams
• Overseeing Strava’s legal hold and eDiscovery tooling to ensure compliance and audit readiness
• Building and maintaining automation in AWS, CrowdStrike, Red Canary, and Tines to improve detection fidelity and response speed

What You'll Bring To The Team:

• Bring hands-on experience with detection and response operations, including: tuning EDR, SIEM, and MDR platforms
• Have written detection rules, scripts, or automation workflows to identify and contain threats in real time
• Are comfortable managing incident response processes end-to-end, from initial triage through post-incident review and reporting
• Have worked with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred) and understand how to monitor and protect modern software infrastructure
• Are familiar with security incident management practices, eDiscovery workflows, and legal hold requirements
• Are collaborative and pragmatic—able to lead during incidents and influence teams through clarity, partnership, and technical expertise
• Communicate clearly and proactively across technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment during high-pressure situations

Compensation Overview

At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. For more information, please contact your talent partner.

Compensation: For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Francisco, CA: The starting base pay for this position is $166,600 - $196,000. This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package, including the range specific to your location, during the hiring process.

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