S Software Engineer, AI Vancouver, CA Mid LLM agent distributed systems

ContentBuffer; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 205,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings/retirement plans

In-office dining options

Job summary

Asana is hiring a Software Engineer in Vancouver to join our growing AI organization. You’ll contribute to end-to-end features powering intelligent collaboration and agentic automation, balancing performance, cost, and reliability across our stack.

You’ll work with modern foundation models, prompt pipelines, and workflow orchestration, while collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver impactful AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production code in modern distributed architectures, web services, or data-intensive systems.
• Strong command of software design fundamentals, testing practices, and data structures, with interest in LLMs and prompt pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end implementation of features that power intelligent collaboration and agentic automation.
• Write clean, modular code and balance latency, cost, and reliability when integrating foundation models and workflow orchestration logic.
• Maintain production pipelines, participate in on-call rotations, and diagnose complex distributed-system bugs.
• Break down feature specs into milestones and provide accurate technical estimates for delivery.

Skills

LLM experience

Distributed systems

Code reviews

On-call rotations

Tools

Prompt pipelines

Vector databases

Agentic frameworks

Job description

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing AI organization in Vancouver. Asana is pioneering a new category of technology as the human-agent operating system, doubling down on our AI Suite to turn manual work into scalable, intelligent systems. We are hiring software engineers across several of our core AI teams, ranging from the platform foundations and runtime infrastructure powering autonomous agents, to the trust, evaluation, and observability systems that ensure safety and governance, to the high-impact product surfaces enabling users to build and run AI-orchestrated workflows. Because we are hiring for multiple teams, you will interview through a centralized interview process, and we will undergo a team matching process at the end.

This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The 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 you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

• Own the end-to-end implementation of small-to-medium features and services that power intelligent collaboration and agentic automation across Asana.
• Write clean, modular, and well-tested code across our stack while evaluating trade-offs between latency, cost, and reliability when integrating modern foundation models, prompt pipelines, and workflow orchestration logic.
• Proactively maintain and improve Areas of Responsibility (AoRs), monitor production pipelines, participate in team on-call rotations, and diagnose complex bugs across asynchronous or distributed systems.
• Break down feature specifications into clear engineering milestones, provide accurate technical estimates, and reliably execute to advance the adoption of the AI Suite.
• Elevate code quality, advocate for test coverage and technical debt remediation, and conduct thoughtful and rigorous code reviews for your peers.

About you

• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production code in modern distributed architectures, web services, or data-intensive systems.
• Strong command of software design fundamentals, testing practices, and data structures, paired with experience or curiosity in working with LLMs, prompt pipelines, vector databases, or agentic frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to take a technical specification, evaluate trade-offs, seek feedback on risky or complex changes early, and ship to production with minimal oversight.
• High bar for code health, writing well-structured, maintainable, and self-documenting code with comprehensive test plans and logical PR breakdowns.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and fellow engineers while communicating progress clearly and surfacing blockers early.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $146,000-$162,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• 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

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

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About us

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 1