Software Engineer
San Francisco · USD 171,000-190,000 / year · 2+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 171,000-190,000 / year · Base salary
About Asana
- Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.
- We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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About the role
- AI Teammates are Asana’s flagship AI innovation, consisting of autonomous agents embedded directly into enterprise workflows that reason, act, and proactively drive work forward.
- The AI Teammates Platform (AITP) team owns the execution engine and platform layer that makes these AI Teammates effective, reliable, and scalable.
- As a Software Engineer on the team, you will build composable foundational systems behind agentic execution, model evaluation and rollouts, proactive detection of blocked work, and tool orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software quality
- Contribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segment
- Gain exposure to Asana’s core infrastructure, particularly how data is represented, stored, and deleted in the storage layer
- Work with asynchronous jobs and implement algorithms that efficiently traverse the Asana Work Graph
- Partner with legal to implement data ownership rules, requiring simple and effective technical solutions to make this process easy and clear to customers
- Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizations
- Support other teams and stakeholders that work in the team’s space
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience working within large, well-maintained codebases
- Strong communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners (e.g., PM, design)
- Sound judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality code and long-term code maintainability
- Passionate about creating an exceptional user experience and attentive to details
- Appreciate productivity and care deeply about helping teams collaborate more effectively and efficiently, including your own
- Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings the aspects of themselves to the workplace that they need to thrive
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
Benefits
- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
- Career coaching & support
- Inclusive family building benefits
- Long-term savings or retirement plans
- In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences
Workplace
- Office-centric hybrid schedule based in the San Francisco office
- Standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Option to work from home on Wednesdays for most Asanas