Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Asana•San Francisco, CA

3d•$248,000 - $282,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a staff software engineer to lead a team scaling the distributed systems running Asana’s in-house web framework, LunaServer. You will help us ensure high availability and performance as we support higher throughput from ever larger customers. The LunaServer Infrastructure team owns and supports the production services that run Asana’s business logic and asynchronous task queue. As the Tech Lead of the team, you will help us anticipate scaling challenges and plan work for the team to solve those problems. We work closely with other teams in the backend infrastructure group to build and retain customer trust in Asana as the platform for their critical workflows. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve: Work with other engineering leaders to set an ambitious and compelling roadmap for a team of 5-7 backend engineers Design and implement reliable, performant, and scalable distributed systems backing Asana’s webservers and Developer API Improve and evolve how we schedule, run, and manage our asynchronous task queue Lead large projects with other backend engineers through all stages of development, from design and implementation to deployment and iteration Mentor other engineers on the team on topics such as project leadership and system design principles Collaborate closely with other infrastructure teams at Asana to define how user data in the Work Graph is accessed Support framework and product engineers to build new product functionality at scale, quickly Ensure high customer trust by participating in an on-call rotation for our team’s services

Requirements

6+ years of engineering experience building and operating reliable backend services, with 3+ years of experience leading projects and initiatives
You have experience setting direction for and leading large initiatives (spanning across multiple teams, and perhaps organizations)
You have a passion for mentoring other engineers to help them create and maintain production-quality infrastructure
You are skilled at communicating technical concepts and constraints to cross-functional partners in product and sales
You demonstrate curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
You have experience managing Node.js services in production
You are familiar with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Work with other engineering leaders to set an ambitious and compelling roadmap for a team of 5-7 backend engineers
Design and implement reliable, performant, and scalable distributed systems backing Asana’s webservers and Developer API
Improve and evolve how we schedule, run, and manage our asynchronous task queue
Lead large projects with other backend engineers through all stages of development, from design and implementation to deployment and iteration
Mentor other engineers on the team on topics such as project leadership and system design principles
Collaborate closely with other infrastructure teams at Asana to define how user data in the Work Graph is accessed
Support framework and product engineers to build new product functionality at scale, quickly
Ensure high customer trust by participating in an on-call rotation for our team’s services