26 days ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build platform reliability systems such as load shedding, circuit breakers, and rate limiting.
- Own ingress, egress, and traffic-flow concerns across the platform.
- Define stable interfaces and libraries for other platform teams.
- Lead cross-team projects from scoping and design through rollout.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to embed reliability into system architecture.
- Debug complex production issues and prevent recurrence.
- Share knowledge through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with experience writing production code and designing systems.
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
- Familiarity with distributed-systems patterns including backpressure, graceful degradation, and capacity planning.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, Terraform, and monitoring tools such as Datadog or similar.
- Experience defining and working within explicit reliability and performance targets for production systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills when navigating trade-offs with platform and infrastructure teams.
- Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with willingness to use them to improve productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
- Engineering fundamentals are valued over experience with any specific programming language.
Benefits
- Estimated base salary of 31,000–36,000 PLN gross monthly under a Polish Contract of Employment.
- Restricted Stock Units in Asana Inc.
- 50% tax-deductible costs for author’s rights usage for engineers.
- Health insurance with dental and travel coverage through Lux Med.
- Lunch catering on office days.
- Career growth budget and home office setup budget.
- Gym or fitness card, fertility healthcare and family-forming support through Carrot, and mental health support through Modern Health.
- Group life insurance and holiday allowance.
- MacBook with necessary accessories.
- Warsaw office-centric hybrid schedule with standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; Wednesday work-from-home is generally available and Friday arrangements depend on the work.
- Polish Contract of Employment (UoP).
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSAzureDatadogGoGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesMySQLPythonRedisScalaTerraformTypeScript
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Asana
Asana builds a work management platform that helps teams plan, track, and coordinate projects and goals, with AI-assisted features and integrations. It sells subscription-based SaaS used across functions from marketing to engineering. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Asana is publicly traded on the NYSE and used by more than 170,000 organizations, including Accenture and Amazon.