Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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

About you:

• 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

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $248,000 - $282,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

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