Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering
Core
Own technical direction for Asana's Platform Reliability Engineering team, designing and building core systems like load shedding, rate limiting, and circuit breakers to protect the platform under real-world load.
Role type
Senior IC Tech Lead, Platform Reliability Engineering
Builds
Core platform systems (load shedding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, traffic controls) and stable interfaces/libraries for other platform teams
Domain
SaaS collaboration platform, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Backend systems design at scale, distributed systems patterns (backpressure, graceful degradation), cloud platform expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure as code (Terraform), observability (Datadog), technical mentorship, cross-team collaboration
Preferred skills
AI tools adoption, curiosity about emerging technologies
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), MySQL (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis, Terraform, Datadog, TypeScript, Scala, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Set technical direction and architecture for the team, design and build core platform reliability systems, define stable interfaces and libraries, lead end-to-end projects from scoping to rollout, raise technical quality through code reviews and design discussions, debug critical production issues, partner with infrastructure teams to embed reliability into architecture
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC technical leadership