Senior Software Engineer, Platform Reliability

Asana is a leading platform that helps teams achieve goals faster worldwide. Awarded Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years and Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, Asana fosters a culture of inclusion, equity, and belonging.

• Strong software engineering background with comfort in writing production code and designing systems.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns including backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity planning.
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tools like Datadog.
• Experience defining and working within explicit reliability and performance targets for production systems.
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills.
• Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies with willingness to learn and leverage them.

• Design and build core platform systems such as load shedding, circuit breakers, and rate limiting to protect Asana at scale.
• Own critical platform concerns like ingress and egress, shaping traffic flow through systems.
• Define stable interfaces and libraries for other platform teams.
• Lead end-to-end projects from scoping and design through rollout across multiple platform teams.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to embed reliability as a core design constraint.
• Debug complex issues across the stack and ensure they do not recur.
• Share knowledge through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.

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