Staff Software Engineer, Asana
LunaServer
$248-316k
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3-5 days a week in office
Organizing work in one connected space
Be an early applicant
Organizing work in one connected space
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$248-316k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of engineering experience building and operating reliable backend services, with 3+ years of experience leading projects and initiatives
- You have experience setting direction for and leading large initiatives (spanning across multiple teams, and perhaps organizations)
- You have a passion for mentoring other engineers to help them create and maintain production-quality infrastructure
- You are skilled at communicating technical concepts and constraints to cross-functional partners in product and sales
- You demonstrate curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
Desirable
- You have experience managing Node.js services in production
- You are familiar with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Growth - We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways
- Development - We believe in providing everyone with coaching and mentorship. You’ll have access to Conscious Leadership training, success guides, free executive coaching, and our manager training and enablement program
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dustin Moskovitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Harvard economics graduate, Dustin co-founded Facebook in 2004 before branching off in 2008 to found Asana. They are also the co-founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures.
Justin Rosenstein
(Co-Founder)Previously Engineering Manager at Facebook and a Product Manager at Google. Currently Co-Founder of One Project.
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