Senior Software Engineer, AI

Asana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its growing AI organization in Vancouver. Asana is pioneering a new category of technology as the human-agent operating system, focusing on its AI Suite to enable end-to-end intelligent orchestration. The role involves working across several key AI engineering teams, potentially leading architecture across the core agentic runtime, developing high-throughput evaluation and safety infrastructure, or building customer-facing builders and canvas surfaces for coordinating humans and AI agents. This is an organization-wide search, so candidates participate in a single streamlined technical interview process and are matched to the ideal team at the end.

• Drive technical design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large projects across the AI roadmap, guiding and collaborating with multiple engineers.
• Design robust, extensible, and performant systems supporting agentic execution, prompt-driven automation, model orchestration, and strict enterprise-grade data boundaries.
• Solve complex technical problems by weighing technical debt, developer velocity, execution risk, and business goals.
• Anticipate customer and architectural risks early, breaking down ambiguous product visions into clear engineering milestones.
• Champion technical excellence, write high-leverage design docs, run retrospectives, establish testing norms, and mentor engineers.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Designers, and Data Scientists to define requirements and align technical direction.

• Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production distributed systems, microservices, or complex full-stack architectures.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple services or codebases, with practical experience or deep interest in LLMs, agentic patterns, evaluation pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or real-time streaming infrastructure.
• Proven ability to author comprehensive technical design docs, evaluate trade-offs (e.g., latency, cost, determinism, maintainability), and make durable architectural decisions.
• Track record of acting as a Tech Lead or Area of Responsibility (AoR) owner, driving multi-contributor projects from ambiguity to delivery.
• Passion for mentoring and coaching fellow engineers, providing actionable code and design feedback.
• Deep empathy for end-user experience, understanding how backend architecture and model behaviors affect user trust, interface latency, and workflow reliability.

The estimated base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $200,000. The actual base salary will vary based on market and individual qualifications. The compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. Benefits include mental health, wellness & fitness benefits, career coaching & support, inclusive family building benefits, long-term savings or retirement plans, and in-office culinary options. Benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations.

This role is based in the Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. Standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work and team.

Apply through the provided application link. Asana encourages applications even if you don't meet every listed requirement.