Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience
Asana- Base salary
- $248k–$282k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - New York City, 3 days/week (Mon, Tue, Thu) Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
Role skills
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About the job
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to integrate and improve our AI developer experience so that engineers at Asana can use AI to increase their velocity. As part of the AI Developer Productivity team, you'll set technical direction and build the next generation of AI-powered developer tools across editors, IDEs, CLIs, code review, and cloud and local coding agents.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-augmented workflows and systems that help coding agents understand the codebase and follow engineering practices.
- Design and scale autonomous cloud agents for complex, multi-step engineering tasks.
- Build and refine IDE, editor, and CLI integrations for AI-assisted development.
- Create reusable agent skills, tools, context, and integrations.
- Improve AI-assisted code review workflows.
- Drive adoption of AI developer tools across engineering.
- Set technical direction balancing experimentation with reliability.
- Partner cross-functionally to understand engineering needs.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading complex technical projects.
- Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, infrastructure, IDE/editor integrations, CLIs, or workflow automation.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex), or extending coding agents, MCP-based integrations, AI-powered code review systems, or agent skill/tool ecosystems.
- Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-generated outputs.
- Strong technical judgment and systems design skills.
Compensation
Estimated base salary range: $248,000 - $282,000. Additional components may include equity and benefits.
Benefits
- Equity
- Long-term savings or retirement plans
- In-office culinary options
- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
- Career coaching & support
- Inclusive family building benefits
Application
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