Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform & Agents

Asana; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Career coaching

Family building benefits

Long-term savings / retirement plans

In-office dining

Job summary

Asana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Teammates Platform team in San Francisco. You will drive architecture and execution of scalable, agentic runtime systems, tool orchestration, and platform APIs, partnering with product and data science.

You will own complex backend design, optimize latency and cost, and mentor engineers while shipping features that empower teams to build and deploy AI agents at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and running production distributed systems or complex backend architectures.
• Track record as Tech Lead or AoR owner driving multi-contributor projects.
• Owns outcomes, communicates risks early and clearly.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical design and end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large AI Teammates projects.
• Architect and own platform foundations, harness, memory, and APIs & events.
• Design robust, scalable systems for agentic execution and integration with tools.
• Balance latency, cost, and reliability while reducing technical debt.
• Ship in small increments and validate with real customer usage and metrics.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Reliability

LLMs / AI

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Job description

Asana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Teammates Platform team in San Francisco. You will drive architecture and execution of scalable, agentic runtime systems, tool orchestration, and platform APIs, partnering with product and data science.

You will own complex backend design, optimize latency and cost, and mentor engineers while shipping features that empower teams to build and deploy AI agents at scale.