3 months ago
Reykjavík, IcelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and improve the architecture of development sandboxes to accelerate development iteration.
- Modernize the build system and improve developer experience and iteration cycles.
- Lead complex developer infrastructure projects from technical design through implementation, rollout, and operation.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify opportunities that help teams develop faster.
- Analyze developer infrastructure systems to identify issues, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
- Track open-source trends and identify opportunities to improve development infrastructure.
- Champion code quality and sound engineering practices through technical guidance and infrastructure.
- Write clean, maintainable code and improve existing systems.
- Collaborate with engineers to build reliable and intuitive infrastructure for developers across Asana.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally focused on backend or infrastructure work in large, well-maintained codebases and production systems.
- Familiarity with build tooling and automated testing, with an interest in distributed systems.
- Ability to learn quickly across complex codebases and infrastructure stacks.
- Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration and technical alignment.
- Sound autonomous judgment in balancing speed, risk reduction, reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Interest in AI-assisted engineering tools and emerging technologies.
- Experience designing, building, or operating infrastructure on AWS or another major cloud platform is preferred.
Benefits
- Office-centric hybrid schedule in Reykjavík with standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; most employees may work from home Wednesdays, with Fridays dependent on team and work type.
- Mental health, wellness, and fitness benefits.
- Career coaching and support.
- Inclusive family-building benefits.
- Long-term savings or retirement plans.
- In-office culinary options accommodating dietary preferences.
About Asana
Asana builds a work management platform that helps teams plan, track, and coordinate projects and goals, with AI-assisted features and integrations. It sells subscription-based SaaS used across functions from marketing to engineering. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Asana is publicly traded on the NYSE and used by more than 170,000 organizations, including Accenture and Amazon.