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This role is a good fit for someone who wants to own reliability as a first-class concern - building the foundational systems that protect Asana's platform, not just responding when things go wrong.\nYou'll build core platform systems like load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and traffic controls that protect Asana under real-world load. This is deep, cross-cutting work that shapes stability and performance of our entire infrastructure - and you'll partner closely with other platform teams to make reliability something that's built in, not bolted on.\nOur tech stack includes: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), CloudFront, Istio, Cilium, 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.)\nWhy this role?\nReliability 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.\nFoundational work: Load shedding, traffic management, ingress/egress - these are the building blocks that protect everything else. You'll own them.\nStrong collaboration, reasonable hours: You'll work closely with infrastructure teams in Warsaw and Reykjavik, making deep collaboration practical without constant timezone gymnastics.\n Room to grow: This is a new team, and you'll help shape what Platform Reliability Engineering looks like at Asana - whether that means leading projects, mentoring others, or defining our technical direction.\nIn this role, success means shipping systems that other teams rely on by default - because they make the platform safer, not because they're mandatory.\nWe'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.\nThis 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.\nWe offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland.\nWhat you'll achieve:\nDesign and build core platform systems - load shedding, circuit breakers, rate limiting - that protect Asana at scale.\nOwn critical platform concerns like ingress and egress, shaping how traffic flows through our systems.\nDefine stable interfaces and libraries that other platform teams build on.\nLead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, working across multiple platform teams.\nPartner with other infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Asana's architecture - not as an afterthought, but as a core design constraint.\nDebug 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.\nShare knowledge through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.\nAbout you:\nStrong software engineering background - you're comfortable writing production code and designing systems. We use Go, Python, Scala, and TypeScript, but we care more about engineering fundamentals than specific language experience.\n7+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale.\nFamiliarity with distributed systems patterns - you've thought about things like backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity planning.\nExperience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Terraform, and monitoring tooling like Datadog or similar.\nExperience defining and working within explicit reliability and performance targets for production systems.\nClear communicator and strong collaborator - you're comfortable navigating trade-offs with other platform and infrastructure teams.\nDemonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making\nAt Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.\nImportant: This is a software engineering role. If your background is primarily scripting, dashboards, or operational playbooks, this likely isn't a fit.\nWhat we offer\nGenerous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and generous Restricted Stock Unit for Asana Inc.) \nContract of Employment (with 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage for Engineers) \nHealth insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med) \nLunch catering on the days that you work from the office\nCareer growth budget \nHome office setup budget \nGym/Fitness card\nFertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot\nMental health support in Modern Health\nGroup life insurance\nHoliday allowance\nMacBooks with all necessary accessories\nFor this role, the estimated base salary range is between 31,000 - 36,000 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.\nOur total compensation consists of base salary and equity (RSUs). \n#LI-Hybrid #LI-KM2\nAbout us\nAsana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.\nWe believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. 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