Asana is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to solve challenging scaling problems in their infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance as they support higher throughput from ever-larger customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience building and operating reliable backend services
- 2+ years of experience building and scaling high-volume storage/online data systems (e.g. databases)
- 2+ years experience in operating highly available, user-facing production services
- Familiar with service and container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes
- Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
Responsibilities
- Design and implement reliable, performant, and scalable distributed systems
- Lead large projects with other backend engineers through all stages of development, from design and implementation to deployment and iteration
- Mentor other engineers on a team of 6-8 on topics such as system design principles
- Collaborate closely with other infrastructure teams at Asana
- 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
Other
- Have a passion for mentoring other engineers to help them create and maintain production-quality infrastructure
- Skilled at communicating technical concepts and constraints to cross-functional partners in product and sale
- This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.
- Along with most Asanas, you’ll work from this office in person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
- Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays.
