Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

Asana is hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead a new Platform Reliability team focused on maintaining and improving the resilience of a rapidly growing global platform. The role involves collaborating with platform engineering, infrastructure, and product teams across Warsaw, Reykjavik, and San Francisco, and is based in the Warsaw office with a hybrid work schedule.

• Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies with willingness to learn and leverage them.
• Strong software engineering background to contribute meaningfully to technical discussions, design tradeoffs, and execution.
• Over 5 years of engineering management experience, ideally with backend, infrastructure, or reliability-focused teams.
• Familiarity with building and operating cloud services such as AWS and/or cloud-native systems like Kubernetes.
• Experience in building and operating production systems at scale with a focus on failure modes, resilience, and graceful degradation.
• Comfortable with distributed systems concepts including backpressure, capacity planning, traffic management, and explicit reliability targets.
• Preference for long-term solutions over quick fixes and automation over manual work.
• Excellent coaching and communication skills to help engineers grow, create clarity, and strengthen cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to partner with product, infrastructure, and engineering leadership for tradeoffs and decision-making.
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies in production engineering.

• Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, hiring and developing engineers while establishing standards for collaboration, ownership, technical excellence, and growth.
• Partner with technical leaders to define the roadmap for core reliability systems such as load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, traffic controls, and other platform guardrails.
• 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 long-term 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 usually available on Wednesdays and potentially Fridays depending on work type.

The offered contract is a Contract of Employment (UoP) in Poland.