Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability

<p>We're looking for an Engineering Manager who combines strong technical judgment with people leadership to help build the systems and team practices that keep Asana resilient at scale.</p> <p>This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys turning broad reliability problems into clear priorities, and can balance foundational engineering work with iterative delivery. You'll help shape what Platform Reliability means at Asana while building a team that ships durable systems, strong operational practices, and high-trust partnerships. You will define the reliability roadmap for a rapidly growing global platform, transforming reliability into a core architectural advantage.</p> <p>You'll partner closely with platform engineering, infrastructure, and product teams in Warsaw, Reykjavik and San Francisco to protect Asana under real-world load, improve how traffic and failure modes are handled, and ensure reliability is designed in rather than added later. This is a role for someone who can lead through influence, coach engineers, and raise the bar for execution and collaboration.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>We offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland.</strong></p> <p><strong>What you'll achieve</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, hiring and developing engineers while setting a clear standard for collaboration, ownership, technical excellence and growth.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Establish and evangelize best-in-class operating practices for incident response, postmortems, and proactive risk management through SLOs and capacity planning.</li> <li>Work across platform and infrastructure teams to embed reliability into architecture, planning, and delivery from the start of new initiatives.</li> <li>Lead end-to-end projects from scoping and design through rollout, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.</li> <li>Build a culture of strong engineering execution through coaching, feedback, code reviews, and technical mentorship.</li> <li>Use incidents, metrics, and customer impact to continuously refine priorities and make the team more effective over time.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About you</strong></p> <ul> <li>Demonstrate