Tech Lead: Platform Reliability & Scale

Asana; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 323,640 - 367,353; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Career growth budget

Home office setup budget

Gym/Fitness card

Mental health support

Group life insurance

Holiday allowance

Job summary

A leading tech company in Warsaw is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical direction for their Platform Reliability Engineering team. This role emphasizes hands-on system design and influencing across teams while ensuring high-quality engineering standards. Candidates should have 8+ years in backend systems and a strong software engineering foundation, adept in various tools like AWS and Kubernetes. The role also offers a competitive salary and benefits, emphasizing a collaborative, office-centric work environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
• Strong software engineering background – comfortable writing production code.
• Experience leading technical projects and influencing decisions across teams.
• Familiarity with distributed systems patterns like backpressure and graceful degradation.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the team and ensure quality solutions.
• Design and build core platform systems that protect Asana at scale.
• Own critical platform concerns and shape traffic flow through systems.
• Lead end-to-end projects and collaborate with multiple platform teams.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Technical Leadership

Cloud Platforms

Distributed Systems

System Design

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Go

Python

Scala

TypeScript

Job description

A leading tech company in Warsaw is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical direction for their Platform Reliability Engineering team. This role emphasizes hands-on system design and influencing across teams while ensuring high-quality engineering standards. Candidates should have 8+ years in backend systems and a strong software engineering foundation, adept in various tools like AWS and Kubernetes. The role also offers a competitive salary and benefits, emphasizing a collaborative, office-centric work environment.