Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering

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.

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).

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