Senior Software Engineer, Platform Reliability
Core
Building foundational platform systems (load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers) to ensure Asana's infrastructure stability and performance under real-world load.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Reliability Engineer
Builds
Core platform systems for traffic management, ingress/egress, and stability controls
Domain
SaaS / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Backend systems design, distributed systems patterns, capacity planning, graceful degradation, cloud platform expertise, infrastructure as code, monitoring tooling, production code development
Preferred skills
AI tool adoption, cross-team collaboration, technical mentorship
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), CloudFront, Istio, Cilium, MySQL, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, Terraform, Datadog, TypeScript, Scala, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Design and build core platform systems for load shedding and traffic control, define stable interfaces and libraries for other teams, lead end-to-end projects from design to rollout, debug complex cross-stack issues, partner with infrastructure teams to embed reliability constraints, share knowledge through code reviews and mentorship
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC