The opportunity
We're looking for a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer who brings strong software engineering skills and a deep understanding of system behavior under load and stress. This role is a good fit for someone who wants to own reliability as a first-class concern – building the…
What you'll do
Reliability 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.
Foundational work: Load shedding, traffic management, ingress/egress – these are the building blocks that protect everything else. You'll own them.
Strong collaboration, reasonable hours: You'll work closely with infrastructure teams in Warsaw and Reykjavik, making deep collaboration practical without constant timezone gymnastics.
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.
Design and build core platform systems: load shedding, circuit breakers, rate limiting – that protect Asana at scale.
Own critical platform concerns like ingress and egress, shaping how traffic flows through our systems.
What they're looking for
- Define stable interfaces and libraries that other platform teams build on.
- Lead end-to-end projects, from scoping and design through to rollout, working across multiple platform teams.
- Partner with other infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Asana's: architecture – not as an afterthought, but as a core design constraint.
- Debug 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.
