Senior Infrastructure Engineer (software-focused)

Asana Asana · Enterprise · Warsaw, Poland · Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Infrastructure Engineer focused on building scalable, reliable, and operable internal platforms using code, not runbooks. The role involves designing and building frameworks, tools, and services to improve infrastructure reliability, observability, and scalability, leading end-to-end projects, improving operability of stateful infrastructure, debugging production issues, and partnering with product teams. Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, databases, Terraform, and monitoring tools is required. The role emphasizes strong software engineering and systems thinking, with a preference for engineers who build and ship real systems over those only comfortable with scripting. While not directly building AI models, the role supports AI systems and encourages curiosity about AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build frameworks, tools, and services that improve the reliability, observability, and scalability of Asana’s infrastructure.
  2. Lead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, across multiple systems and teams.
  3. Improve the operability of stateful infrastructure like MySQL, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB – and help drive Asana’s long-term vision for storage reliability.
  4. Debug production issues across the stack. Yes, there’s an on-call rotation – but this isn’t a pager monkey role. You’re here to fix things properly and make sure they don’t break again.
  5. Partner with product teams to shape a service-oriented architecture that enables fast, reliable development.

Skills

Required

  • Strong software engineering background
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Search), especially in cloud environments
  • Experience with AWS services (e.g. RDS, EKS, IAM), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like Datadog or similar
  • Solid understanding of SRE principles (e.g. SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response)
  • Clear communicator and strong collaborator

Nice to have

  • Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • If you’re only comfortable with scripting, this isn’t the right role. We’re looking for engineers who build and ship real systems.