Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

Asana
Warsaw
Workplace: HybridContractPLN 43,500 - 49,000 monthlyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceSkills: ["People leadership","Coaching","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead Asana’s Platform Reliability function by building and growing a new team that ships durable, resilient systems. Own the reliability roadmap for core guardrails like load shedding, rate limiting, and circuit breakers, and establish operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management using SLOs and capacity planning. Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product teams across Warsaw, Reykjavik, and San Francisco to bake reliability into architecture and delivery.

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Asana
Asana
2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

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Job Summary

Lead Asana’s Platform Reliability function by building and growing a new team that ships durable, resilient systems. Own the reliability roadmap for core guardrails like load shedding, rate limiting, and circuit breakers, and establish operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management using SLOs and capacity planning. Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product teams across Warsaw, Reykjavik, and San Francisco to bake reliability into architecture and delivery.
Location: Warsaw
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, including hiring and developing engineers while setting standards for collaboration, ownership, and technical excellence.
  • •Define and drive the reliability roadmap for core systems such as load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, traffic controls, and platform guardrails.
  • •Establish operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management using SLOs and capacity planning.
  • •Embed reliability into architecture, planning, and delivery across platform and infrastructure teams from the start of new initiatives.
  • •Lead end-to-end projects from scoping and design through rollout, making tradeoffs between speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: PLN 43,500 - 49,000 monthly
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalTravel AllowanceLearning BudgetHome OfficeGym MembershipGroup Life

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally with backend, infrastructure, or reliability-focused teams.
  • •Strong software engineering background and ability to contribute meaningfully to technical discussions, design tradeoffs, and execution.
  • •Experience building and operating services in the cloud (e.g., AWS) and/or using cloud-native systems (e.g., Kubernetes).
  • •Experience building and operating production systems at scale with a focus on failure modes, resilience, and graceful degradation.
  • •Comfort working with distributed systems concepts like backpressure, capacity planning, traffic management, and explicit reliability targets.
Experience:CloudDistributed systemsProduction systemsPlatform reliability
Skills:People leadershipCoachingCommunicationCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSKubernetesSLOsCapacity planningIncident responsePostmortemsLoad sheddingRate limitingCircuit breakersTraffic controls

Company Brief

Asana
Asana provides a work management platform that helps teams coordinate, track, and manage tasks, projects, and workflows. It offers collaboration, task tracking, automation, and reporting tools for organizations of all sizes.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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