Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

Asana

We're looking for a Tech Lead to own technical direction for Asana's Platform Reliability Engineering team. This role is for someone who thrives as a technical leader without needing to take on people management. At Asana, Tech Leads own technical execution, architecture, and long-term engineering strategy. You'll lead complex projects, make key technical decisions, and set the standard for engineering quality. You'll guide ICs through technical design and project leadership, and partner with teams across the company. An Engineering Manager handles people leadership – you own the technical direction. Your team will build core platform systems like load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and traffic controls that protect Asana under real-world load. This is hands-on work – you'll spend significant time designing and building systems alongside the team, while partnering with other platform teams to make reliability something that's built in, not bolted on. Our tech stack includes: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), MySQL (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, Terraform, Datadog, TypeScript, Scala, Go, and Python. (Yeah, we know this sounds like buzzword bingo – but we want this post to actually show up in your searches.) We're especially interested in people who think like backend engineers but obsess over failure modes, capacity planning, and building systems that degrade gracefully under pressure. This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do, and your recruiter can share more about the in-office requirements. We offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland. What You'll Achieve: * Set technical direction for the team, making sure we're solving the right problems in the right way. * Design and build core platform systems – load shedding, circuit breakers, rate limiting – that protect Asana at scale. * Own critical platform concerns like ingress and egress, shaping how traffic flows through our systems. * 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 platform teams. * Raise the bar for technical quality through code reviews, design discussions, and technical mentorship. * Partner with other infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Asana's architecture – not as an afterthought, but as a core design constraint. * Debug hard problems across the stack. When something breaks in a way that matters, you'll be the person who figures out why and makes sure it doesn't happen again. About You: * Strong software engineering background – you're comfortable writing production code and designing systems. We use Go, Python, Scala, and TypeScript, but we care more about engineering fundamentals than specific language experience. * 8+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale. * Experience leading technical projects and influencing direction across teams. * You make others around you better – through clarity, feedback, and raising technical standards – even without formal authority. * Familiarity with distributed systems patterns – you've thought about things like backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity planning. * Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like Datadog or similar. * Experience defining and working within explicit reliability and performance targets for production systems. * Clear communicator and strong collaborator – you're comfortable navigating trade-offs with other platform and infrastructure teams. * Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making Important: This is a software engineering role. If your background is primarily scripting, dashboards, or operational playbooks, this likely isn't a fit. Why this role? * Reliability as a first-class feature: You won't be patching things up after the fact. You'll build the systems that make Asana resilient by design. * Foundational work: Load shedding, traffic management, ingress/egress – these are the building blocks that protect everything else. You'll own the technical direction for all of it. * Technical leadership without management overhead: You'll shape architecture and raise the bar for quality, while an Engineering Manager handles people leadership. * Strong collaboration, reasonable hours: You'll work closely with infrastructure teams in Warsaw and Reykjavik, making deep collaboration practical without constant timezone gymnastics. * Room to grow: As the team's scope expands, so will yours – whether that's deeper technical ownership, broader architectural influence, or mentoring the next generation of engineers. In this role, success means shipping systems that other teams rely on by default – because they make the platform safer, not because they're mandatory. What we offer * Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and generous Restricted Stock Unit for Asana Inc.)  * 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  * Gym/Fitness card * Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot * Mental health support in Modern Health * Group life insurance * Holiday allowance * MacBooks with all necessary accessories For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 29000 - 42000 PLN gross monthly on the contract of employment (UoP). The actual base salary will vary based on various factors and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base compensation range for this role may be modified. Our total compensation consists of base salary and equity (RSUs).  #LI-Hybrid #LI-KM2 About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ 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. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Asana

The Product Management team drives Asana’s product strategy and execution, translating customer needs and opportunities into a compelling roadmap and working cross-functionally to deliver impactful solutions for team productivity and collaboration. We’re helping to define the Work Management category and inventing new ways for teams to work more efficiently together and see the larger purpose behind their work. Our team works directly with Engineering, Design, Experience Research, and Data Science, as well as with Sales, Support, and Marketing to ship great products. You’ll take part in every type of product work here — from strategy to product to process improvements — conceptualizing, launching, and iterating on Asana itself for millions of teams around the world.  We are looking for a product manager to join Asana’s Work Intake team, which enables teams of humans and agents to get more work context into Asana and seamlessly execute on it.  You’ll be responsible for defining the path to product-market fit for new work intake capabilities, for both internal and external customers.  You’ll synthesize and prioritize customer and market feedback into product features that can move the needle, and set a compelling roadmap that delivers maximum return on investment. You’ll develop capabilities that other internal teams can incorporate into their product solutions and collaborate with partner teams to develop joint solutions where your surface areas and responsibilities overlap. We are looking for someone who can find the signal in the noise, with deep customer empathy for high-complexity team collaboration workflows. The ideal product manager has an end-to-end ownership mindset and drives for results by breaking work into clear increments, sequencing dependencies, leveraging data and AI, and collaborating with technical partners on tradeoffs affecting reliability and performance. You thrive on learning from customers, and are excited to partner with engineering, design, user research, sales, and the rest of our amazing PM team. This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve * Define and deliver a compelling roadmap to ensure customers have the structure they need to power their end to end workflows. * Synthesize input from customers, user research, data science, and business partners, ensuring we are continuously investing in the highest leverage work intake solutions * Drive MVP offerings to product market fit with rigorous prioritization and seamless execution * Partner closely with design, engineering, marketing, and customer success to co-create a cohesive end to end journey and execute on the roadmap with velocity. * Collaborate across the R&D organization to support other R&D teams in achieving their goals. About you * 1-2 years of experience as a Product Manager * Customer-centric: Spend time directly with customers to understand their nuanced challenge and synthesize research to identify and solve problems. * Communication and collaboration: Communicate clearly and concisely, creating signal through the noise. Collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams, providing the product perspective and bringing clarity to complex concepts. You pair effectively with design, engineering, and our business teams. * Systems thinker: Think systemically, creating solutions that simplify complex use cases for customers. * Get Stuff Done: Execute projects with high velocity, breaking them down into MVPs and iterative stages for impactful delivery. * Grow Team Asana: Foster team morale and share best practices in product management. * Growth Mindset: Embrace a growth mindset, welcoming feedback and maintaining curiosity in learning. At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. What we’ll offer * Generous, transparent and fair compensation system * Contract of Employment (and the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles)  * Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)  * Meals reimbursement on the days that you work from the office * Career growth budget  * Home office setup budget  * Gym/Fitness reimbursement * Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot * Mental Health Support in Modern Health * Group life insurance * MacBooks with all necessary accessories For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 23,660 - 25,600 PLN gross per month (subject to all taxes and necessary deductions). The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified. In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity and sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.   About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ 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. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana. About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ 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. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Asana

Asana’s rapid growth brings new challenges in keeping our systems fast, reliable, and resilient. As our product evolves, we’re making a major investment in reliability – and building a brand new SRE team in Warsaw is a key part of that strategy. This is your chance to help shape it from day one. This isn’t a traditional “ops” role – we’re looking for strong software engineers who are passionate about building reliable, distributed systems. You’ll work closely with a small SRE team in San Francisco, infrastructure engineers in Reykjavik, and an established infrastructure team in Warsaw. Warsaw will be a significant hub for our future infrastructure engineering and operations. As one of the first engineers here, you’ll have a real say in how we build reliable infrastructure, manage incidents, and support the rest of the company. This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do, and your recruiter can share more about the in-office requirements. We offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland. What you’ll achieve * Influence the future of Asana’s SRE practice, especially as we grow the Warsaw team. * Lead reliability-focused projects across our stack – from infrastructure to tooling to incident response. * Define and implement Asana’s incident management process – we’re investing here, and you’ll help shape how it works. * Build internal platforms and frameworks that help other teams improve the reliability of their services. * Be part of (and help shape) a sustainable on-call rotation – shared across teams in Warsaw, San Francisco, and Reykjavik. On average, we handle ~1 page per day, but it’s not constant, and we care about keeping things sane. * Work with our stack: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Datadog, MySQL (RDS), ElasticSearch (OpenSearch), Redis, DynamoDB, Terraform, TypeScript, Scala, Go, and Python. (Yeah, we know this sounds like buzzword bingo – but we want this post to actually show up in your searches.) About you * You’re a strong and experienced software engineer who’s comfortable writing and reading code – this isn’t an ops role. * You care about reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability, not just quick fixes. * You might have worked as an SRE before – or maybe you were a product engineer who kept getting pulled into infra work because you cared about how systems actually run. * You’ve seen systems at scale (or want to), and you’re excited about solving infrastructure problems that have broad impact. * You’re curious, take initiative, and aren’t afraid to work in ambiguous spaces – especially important on a brand new team. * You collaborate well across teams and want to help others build more reliable systems. * You don’t need to know our exact stack, but you’re eager to learn whatever it takes to make things better. * You demonstrate curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making. Why this role? * Founding team: You’ll be one of the first SREs in Warsaw – and a key player in a growing team. * Drive real change: This isn’t a role where you’ll just patch up legacy systems. We are expecting (and supporting) real architectural changes to improve reliability, scalability, and long-term operability. * Big impact: Our product is scaling fast, and reliability is a top company priority. * Room to grow: As this team grows, so will your influence – whether you want to lead projects, mentor others, or help shape how we scale. * Global collaboration: Work closely with experienced engineers in San Francisco, Reykjavik, and Warsaw, while helping build the future of SRE at Asana. What we'll offer * Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and generous Restricted Stock Unit for Asana Inc.). * 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. * Gym/Fitness reimbursement. * Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot. * Mental health support in Modern Health. * Group life insurance. * MacBooks with all necessary accessories. For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 31,000 - 36,000 PLN gross monthly on the contract of employment (UoP). The actual base salary will vary based on various factors and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base compensation range for this role may be modified. Our total compensation consists of base salary and equity (RSUs). #LI-Hybrid #LI-AZ About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ 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. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.