The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Build and lead a new Platform Reliability team, hiring and developing: engineers while setting a clear standard 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, making: thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, safety, and long-term maintainability.
Build a culture of strong engineering execution through coaching, feedback,: code reviews, and technical mentorship.
What they're looking for
- Use incidents, metrics, and customer impact to continuously refine priorities: and make the team more effective over time.
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a: willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
- Strong software engineering background and can contribute meaningfully to: technical discussions, design tradeoffs, and execution even if you are primarily a people leader.
- + years of engineering management experience, ideally with backend,: infrastructure, or reliability-focused teams.
