Staff Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

We’re looking for a staff software engineer with experience in infrastructure and a strong passion for reliability and operability. You will work with a world-class team of engineers on building software-driven reliability for Asana’s online storage infrastructure and solving challenges unique to our domain. We are looking for big thinkers and innovators to take on the problem space and deliver elegant solutions.

The Storage Infrastructure pod builds and manages infrastructure to ensure the reliability and scalability of Asana's online user data systems such as databases and search. You will collaborate with a team that supports Asana’s core data infrastructure, empowering all user workflows, AI features, and offline analytics. This role offers the chance to deliver critical impact and take full ownership while working closely with partner teams. As Asana scales rapidly, the team provides opportunities to design and build complex engineering systems at scale, utilizing industry best practices and innovative solutions.

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 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

• Produce high-quality design and code to build frameworks, services, and the tooling required to scale Asana’s storage infrastructure.
• Drive impactful projects from inception to completion within the storage infrastructure, balancing engineering craftsmanship, execution, and stakeholder alignment across teams.
• Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure service uptime; investigate and resolve production issues promptly.
• Utilize strong accountability, self-motivation, and collaborative skills to deliver results efficiently, and guide the execution and velocity of other team members and projects.
• Work with R&D teams at Asana to define a service-oriented architecture, enable product features, and help shape the engineering vision.
• Promote solid engineering and operational practices through code reviews and mentorship.
• Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and assist engineers in making informed trade-offs. Help other team members, appropriately, in decision-making and execution
• Contribute to and strategize the future of storage infrastructure at Asana.

About you

• Expertise in programming and computer science, and strong interest in distributed systems.
• 8+ years of software development and infrastructure experience; 2+ years mentoring/coaching other team members on design and execution of projects.
• 3+ years of experience building and scaling high-volume online data systems (e.g. search infrastructure, data stores), and operating highly available, user-facing production services.
• Experience with data systems/technologies like RDS, Open Search.
• Good understanding of data stores (SQL, NoSQL, Search) and internals.
• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. IAM, RDS, EKS).
• Strong knowledge, opinions, and experience of SRE principles.
• Experience building scalable, highly-available service oriented architectures.

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 32,250 PLN - 41,083 PLN gross monthly. 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.

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

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences 

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. 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. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.