# Staff Software Engineer, Query and Access Control

**Company**: Asana
**Location**: Reykjavík
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 1,600,000 - 1,800,000 ISK monthly
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a staff software engineer to work on how data is queried and who is allowed to see it. Every read in Asana passes through this layer: it resolves what a user is asking for and enforces, on every object, whether that user is permitted to see it.

The Query and Access Control team owns the query execution path over the Work Graph and the permissioning model that governs it. As a staff engineer on the team, you will take on our hardest technical problems and drive the work that spans several teams, bringing depth to the design decisions that shape this layer for years.

## What you'll achieve

- Design and implement a query layer over the Work Graph that stays correct and performant as customer domains and permission structures grow

- Evolve our access control model so that permission checks remain sound, auditable, and fast on every read path

- Define how new classes of caller, including AI agents acting on a user's behalf, are authorized, without weakening the guarantees customers depend on

- Drive large, multi-quarter projects that cut across team boundaries, from design and implementation through deployment and iteration

- Build alignment on the design with engineers and leaders in other teams before the code is written, and keep that alignment as the work lands

- Share what you know through design review, code review, and mentorship

- Partner with infrastructure teams across Asana to define how user data in the Work Graph is accessed

- Support framework and product engineers to build new product functionality at scale, quickly

## About you

- 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating reliable backend services at scale, with 3+ years driving large-scale projects

- You have driven large technical initiatives spanning multiple teams, and perhaps organizations, from early design to adoption

- You go deep on hard problems and can carry a design from first principles through to production

- You enjoy sharing what you know with other engineers and helping them build production-quality infrastructure

- You are skilled at communicating technical concepts and constraints to cross-functional partners in product

- You bring care and rigor to systems where correctness is not negotiable, and can reason about the blast radius of a change before it ships

## Desirable

- You have experience with authorization systems, permission models, or multi-tenant data isolation at scale

- You have worked on query engines, query planning, caching layers, or graph-shaped data access

- You are familiar with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes

## What we’ll offer

- Estimated base salary range: 1,600,000 - 1,800,000 ISK monthly

- Comprehensive compensation package

- Benefits: mental health, wellness & fitness benefits, career coaching & support, inclusive family building benefits, long-term savings or retirement plans, in-office culinary options

## Skills

### Required
- backend services
- large-scale projects
- design review
- code review
- mentorship
- communication

### Nice to have
- authorization systems
- permission models
- multi-tenant data isolation
- query engines
- query planning
- caching layers
- graph-shaped data access
- infrastructure-as-code
- container orchestration technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes

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