Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering

Asana

We're looking for a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer who brings strong software engineering skills and a deep understanding of system behavior under load and stress. This role is a good fit for someone who wants to own reliability as a first-class concern – building the foundational systems that protect Asana's platform, not just responding when things go wrong. You'll build core platform systems like load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and traffic controls that protect Asana under real-world load. This is deep, cross-cutting work that shapes stability and performance of our entire infrastructure – and you'll partner closely with other platform teams to make reliability something that's built in, not bolted on. Our tech stack includes: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), CloudFront, Istio, Cilium,  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.) 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 them. * 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: This is a new team, and you'll help shape what Platform Reliability Engineering looks like at Asana – whether that means leading projects, mentoring others, or defining our technical direction. 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. 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: * 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. * 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. * Share knowledge through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship. 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. * 7+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale. * 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 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. Important: This is a software engineering role. If your background is primarily scripting, dashboards, or operational playbooks, this likely isn't a fit. 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 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-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

We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who brings strong software engineering skills and a deep understanding of production systems. This role is a good fit for someone who enjoys building systems that make infrastructure more scalable, reliable, and easy to operate – using code, not runbooks. You'll work with a highly collaborative team to design and build the internal platforms that power all of Asana, from product features to AI systems to offline analytics. Our tech stack includes: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), MySQL (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, Terraform, Datadog, TypeScript, Scala, Go, and Python. We’re especially interested in people who think like backend engineers but care deeply about systems – things like failure modes, operational cost, debuggability, and performance. 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: * Design and build frameworks, tools, and services that improve the reliability, observability, and scalability of Asana’s infrastructure. * Lead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, across multiple systems and teams. * Improve the operability of stateful infrastructure like MySQL, OpenSearch, and DynamoDB – and help drive Asana’s long-term vision for storage reliability. * 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. * Partner with product teams to shape a service-oriented architecture that enables fast, reliable development. * Share knowledge through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship. About you: * Strong software engineering background – you’re comfortable writing production code and designing systems (we use Go, Python, Scala, TypeScript). * 7+ 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), but you approach reliability as a software problem first. * Clear communicator and strong collaborator – you're comfortable navigating trade-offs with stakeholders across the stack. * Important: If you’re only comfortable with scripting, this isn’t the right role. We’re looking for engineers who build and ship real systems. * Demonstrates 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.

Asana

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with experience in cloud infrastructure and a strong interest in big data systems. You will be a member of our Data Platform Infrastructure team in Warsaw, responsible for systems that move, store, and govern Asana’s data. 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. Our employees in Poland are employed under a contract of employment.  The Role & Tech Stack The Data Infrastructure teams build and own the entire lifecycle of data - from Asana’s product surfaces to the analytical warehouse and back: * Provisioning and scaling AWS and Databricks environments * Building and maintaining ingestion systems that sync data from Asana’s product surfaces into our data lake * Developing orchestration frameworks to simplify pipeline development and testing for other engineering teams * Creating attribution and reporting systems to provide visibility into platform spend and resource usage What you'll achieve:  * Write production code for backend and infrastructure services that support data reliability and timeliness * Build internal CLI tools or APIs that allow Data Consumers to self-serve infrastructure without needing deep AWS knowledge * Lead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, working across multiple data infrastructure teams About you: * Software Engineering or Data Engineering background - you’re comfortable writing production code, designing systems or working with Data stack. We use AWS, Databricks, Spark, Python, Scala, but care more about engineering fundamentals than specific domain experience. * 4+ years of experience designing and implementing production code for backend, infrastructure, data systems. * Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like Datadog, Grafana or similar. * Familiarity with distributed data processing systems (e.g. Databricks, Spark, Snowflake or similar systems). * Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making. 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 25,000 PLN - 28,917 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. #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.