Infrastructure Security Engineer

Our Infrastructure Security team’s mission is to contain adversarial activity through innovative solutions. We make big bets to eliminate structural risks and improve our ability to defend against threats. We build guardrails to protect our teams instead of acting as gatekeepers. 

On this team you will partner with our engineering teams to protect and defend Asana’s cloud infrastructure and provide a secure environment for engineering teams to work. You will gain exposure to the internals and best practices for securing applications in the cloud (AWS) and leverage relevant state-of-the-art infrastructure tooling to build durable security solutions.

Day to day you will:

• Design, implement, manage and improve security systems and controls
• Identify and help mitigate security issues and vulnerabilities
• Design, implement and maintain secure-by-default frameworks to enable engineering teams
• Influence engineering initiatives through design reviews, communicating security constraints and helping teams make the right trade-offs.
• Leverage the structure of compliance frameworks to help identify and implement useful security controls
• Work with teammates and stakeholders to develop short and long-term strategy for managing risks

About you:

• Strong interest or experience in security engineering and cloud infrastructure
• Have expertise in programming and computer science
• Excellent communication for both working with teammates and collaborating with other teams.
• Fast learner and can bring your experience and perspective to challenge and improve our security posture
• Interested in building defenses against real world attacks
• Looking for a blameless and open environment where you and your teammates empower one another moving towards a shared goal

About us

At Asana, we're building a better way to work, fueled by transparency, inclusion, and technology that is a force for positive change. Asana is a work management platform that helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives, so they can move faster and accomplish more with less. For the past 5 years, we've been named a top workplace, including top 10 Great Place to Work Best Small & Medium Workplaces, #1 Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, #8 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, and one of Ireland's Best Workplaces. With offices all over the world, we are always looking for curious, collaborative, and mission-driven people to help us enable the world’s teams to work together effortlessly.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.

More information:

• Rethinking the org chart: Areas of Responsibility (AoRs)
• Distributed responsibility: An engineering manager’s perspective
• The Pyramid of Clarity

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.