Senior Software Engineer, Platform Reliability

📋 Description

• Design and build core platform systems – load shedding, circuit breakers, rate limiting – that
• Own critical platform concerns like ingress and egress, shaping how traffic flows through our
• Define stable interfaces and libraries that other platform teams build on.
• Lead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, working across multiple
• Partner with other infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Asana's architecture – not as an
• Debug hard problems across the stack. When something breaks in a way that matters, you'll be the

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
• Strong software engineering background – comfortable writing production code and designing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns – backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like
• Experience defining and working within explicit reliability and performance targets for production
• Clear communicator and strong collaborator – comfortable navigating trade-offs with other platform

🎁 Benefits

• Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and generous Restricted Stock Unit
• Contract of Employment (with 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage for Engineers)
• Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)
• Lunch catering on the days that you work from the office
• Career growth budget
• Home office setup budget