Asana

Staff Software Engineer, AI Teammates

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Base Salary

$248k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical strategy for the AI Teammates execution engine, tool orchestration, and platform APIs.
  • Architect and own a composable platform foundation that enables product teams to build agentic capabilities.
  • Lead technical initiatives involving proactivity, MCP integrations, model evaluations, latency tuning, cost optimization, and safe scaling.
  • Drive standards for clean architecture, reliability, evaluation methodologies, and high-velocity engineering execution.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, User Research, and external model providers.
  • Mentor engineers, provide candid feedback, and identify technical growth opportunities.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience working in large codebases, with strong backend, systems, or reliability fundamentals.
  • 2+ years leading engineering teams or serving as a technical lead, including experience with technical strategy, timeline planning, and risk mitigation.
  • Experience or deep interest in applied AI or agentic systems, including agent orchestration, tool integration, model evaluation frameworks, RAG, or production LLM observability.
  • Deep project management experience involving timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordination of others.
  • Ability to work across contexts and codebases to unblock teammates and solve complex technical problems.
  • Strong mentoring skills and commitment to fostering an inclusive, psychologically safe engineering environment.

Benefits

  • Office-centric hybrid schedule in San Francisco, with standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; work from home is generally available Wednesday and may depend on the work and team on Friday.
  • Mental health, wellness, and fitness benefits.
  • Career coaching and support.
  • Inclusive family-building benefits.
  • Long-term savings or retirement plans.
  • In-office culinary options supporting dietary preferences.
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About Asana

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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