Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering

Asana
Warsaw
Workplace: HybridFull timePLN 29,000 - 32,917 monthlyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Mentoring","Leadership"]

Tech Lead to own the technical direction of Asana's Platform Reliability Engineering team, driving architecture, execution, and long-term engineering strategy without people management. Leads design of core platform systems (load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers), mentors engineers, and partners with multiple platform teams to ensure reliability is built in. Based in Warsaw with a hybrid in-office schedule and Poland UoP contract.

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7 months ago

Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering

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Job Summary

Tech Lead to own the technical direction of Asana's Platform Reliability Engineering team, driving architecture, execution, and long-term engineering strategy without people management. Leads design of core platform systems (load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers), mentors engineers, and partners with multiple platform teams to ensure reliability is built in. Based in Warsaw with a hybrid in-office schedule and Poland UoP contract.
Location: Warsaw
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: PLN 29,000 - 32,917 monthly
Perks:Health InsuranceTravel AllowanceMeal AllowanceHome OfficeGym MembershipLife InsuranceHoliday AllowanceMacbooks

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering background – 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.
  • •Familiarity with distributed systems patterns – backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity planning.
  • •Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like Datadog or similar.
Experience:8+ yearsSaaS
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationMentoringLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSKubernetesMySQLOpenSearchDynamoDBRedisTerraformDatadogTypeScriptScalaGoPython

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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