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 backgroun