Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration with 13+ offices worldwide. Millions of teams rely on Asana to achieve their goals faster. The company has been recognized by Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for workplace culture and innovation. This role is based in the Warsaw office with a hybrid work schedule.

• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies and their application in production engineering.
• Strong software engineering background with meaningful contribution to technical discussions and execution.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally with backend, infrastructure, or reliability-focused teams.
• Familiarity with building and operating services in the cloud, e.g., AWS, and/or using cloud-native systems like Kubernetes.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale, with a focus on failure modes, resilience, and graceful degradation.
• Comfortable with distributed systems concepts such as backpressure, capacity planning, traffic management, and reliability targets.
• Preference for long-term solutions over quick fixes and automation over manual labor.
• Excellent coaching and communication skills to help engineers grow and strengthen cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to partner with product, infrastructure, and engineering leadership for tradeoffs and decisions.

• Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, hire and develop engineers, and set standards for collaboration and technical excellence.
• Partner with technical leaders to define the roadmap for core reliability systems such as load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and traffic controls.
• Establish and evangelize best-in-class operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management through SLOs and capacity planning.
• Work across platform and infrastructure teams to embed reliability into architecture, planning, and delivery from the start of new initiatives.
• Lead end-to-end projects from scoping and design through rollout, balancing speed, safety, and maintainability.
• Build a culture of strong engineering execution through coaching, feedback, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
• Use incidents, metrics, and customer impact to continuously refine priorities and improve team effectiveness.

This role is based in the Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. Standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Work-from-home is possible on Wednesdays, with Friday remote work depending on job function. The employment type is Contract of Employment (UoP) for Poland.