Senior Staff Engineer: AI-Driven Developer Productivity

Asana; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 324,000 - 337,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Wellness benefits

Career coaching

Inclusive family benefits

Retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Productivity, driving AI tooling across tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure to enhance the developer experience for thousands of engineers. This role spans multiple teams and emphasizes strategic planning, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid, office-centric environment.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years as a technical contributor, a track record in building scalable build systems, and a passion for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a technical contributor in large-scale products.
• 2+ years owning a build system, developer environment, CI or equivalent at an organization of 200+ engineers.
• Experience making and delegating technical decisions that have org-wide impact.
• Developed a fluency in current AI developer tooling and have strong enough opinions to collaborate with teams and set direction.
• Passionate about coaching and mentoring engineers of all experience levels.
• Deep care for collaboration and an ability to foster an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and thrive.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

Responsibilities

• Drive critical developer productivity and AI developer tooling projects that impact 500+ developers at Asana
• Partner with the Developer Productivity Group Tech Lead to define technical vision and strategy for 6+ engineering teams, all focused towards improving velocity for Asana engineers
• Build and align on the roadmap for Asana's development platform to drive faster development lifecycle feedback loops and uplevel how every Asana engineer ships
• Own key outcomes like extending the internal tooling engineers use to delegate work to agents across harnesses
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers in Developer Productivity and across Foundations and the rest of the Engineering organization
• Act as a resource for team-level tech leads on topics like longer-term technical planning, design & architecture, and prioritizing tech debt

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Developer productivity

AI tooling

System design

Collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Build systems

AI tooling

Job description

Asana is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Productivity, driving AI tooling across tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure to enhance the developer experience for thousands of engineers. This role spans multiple teams and emphasizes strategic planning, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid, office-centric environment.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years as a technical contributor, a track record in building scalable build systems, and a passion for