Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

We’re looking for a senior software engineer with experience in infrastructure and operations and a strong interest in big data systems. You will work with a world-class team of engineers on deploying and operating existing systems, and building new systems to meet the unique challenges of Asana’s data platforms.

The Data Infrastructure team builds the infrastructure responsible for consuming, exposing, and creating product and product-derived datasets. Our team owns the pipelines that transport and process database data from all of Asana’s product surfaces. We build and operate the infrastructure and services that ensure data accuracy and data availability for stakeholders in Data Science, Business, and Product teams.

This role is based in our Warsaw 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 your recruiter can share more about the in-office requirements.

Our employees in Poland are employed under a contract of employment.

What you’ll achieve

• Work on cross-functional projects to help define the future of Asana’s data platforms, enabling our colleagues to make the best possible use of data
• Collaborate with data engineering and with other infrastructure teams on problems related to data infrastructure service models, operations, deployment and security
• Design and implement tooling and automation for data access, scalability, monitoring and alerting, and privacy
• Evangelize good code and solid engineering and operability practices
• Co-create and follow best practices of running data applications in the cloud (AWS) and all the state-of-the-art tooling around it
• Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
• Keep our data platform up and running by being part of our data infra on-call rotation (within working hours)
• Help bootstrap our Data Infra presence in Warsaw!

About you

• Expertise in programming, distributed systems design, and infrastructure
• Experience building and operating scalable, reliable, and highly-available services
• 4+ years designing and implementing production code for backend, infrastructure, and/or data systems
• 2+ years mentoring/coaching other team members on design and execution of projects
• Eagerness to collaborate with different roles and functions across Asana with a keen sense of empathy
• Good command of Python and SQL
• Familiarity with distributed data processing systems (e.g. Spark, Databricks, Snowflake or similar systems)
• Expertise in AWS services (e.g. IAM, S3) and with infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g. Terraform)

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

• Generous, transparent and fair compensation system
• Contract of Employment (and the option of  50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles) 
• Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med) 
• Meals reimbursement on the days that you work from the office
• Career growth budget 
• Home office setup budget 
• Gym/Fitness reimbursement
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot
• Mental health support in Modern Health
• Group life insurance
• MacBooks with all necessary accessories

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 29 000 - 36 833PLN gross per month (subject to all taxes and necessary deductions) . 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 and 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.

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. 

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.