Staff Software Engineer, LunaServer

Asana

San Francisco, CA

Full Time

Senior

248k-316k

16 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

Work with other engineering leaders to set an ambitious and compelling roadmap for a team of 6-8 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
3+ years of experience leading projects and initiatives
Experience setting direction for and leading large initiatives spanning multiple teams or organizations
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 sales
Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

Nice to Have

Experience managing Node.js services in production
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes

Qualifications

Educational background is not explicitly specified, but extensive engineering experience is required

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive compensation package including base salary, equity, and benefits
Estimated base salary range between $248,000 - $316,000, with actual salary based on market and individual qualifications
Benefits such as mental health, wellness & fitness benefits, career coaching & support, inclusive family building benefits, long-term savings or retirement plans, and in-office culinary options

Working at Asana

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. We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide.

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