# Senior Software Engineer, AI

**Company**: Asana
**Location**: Vancouver, BC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000 - $200,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re looking for a Senior 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 move our customers toward expansive, end-to-end intelligent orchestration.

Depending on the team, you might lead architecture across our core agentic runtime, develop high-throughput evaluation and safety infrastructure, or build sophisticated customer-facing builders and canvas surfaces that allow enterprises to coordinate humans and AI agents seamlessly.

**What you’ll achieve**

- Drive the technical design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large projects across our AI roadmap, guiding and collaborating with multiple engineers.

- Design robust, extensible, and performant systems that support agentic execution, prompt-driven automation, model orchestration, and strict enterprise-grade data boundaries.

- Solve complex technical problems by weighing technical debt, developer velocity, execution risk, and direct business goals.

- Anticipate customer and architectural risks early, breaking down complex, ambiguous product visions into clear engineering milestones and actionable tasks.

- Champion technical excellence, write high-leverage design docs, run meaningful retrospectives, establish testing norms, and mentor engineers across levels to raise the engineering bar.

- Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Designers, and Data Scientists to define requirements, clarify trade-offs, and align technical direction with Asana's broader product strategy.

**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.

- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production distributed systems, microservices, or complex full-stack architectures.

- Demonstrated track record of technical leadership across multiple services or codebases, with practical experience or deep interest in LLMs, agentic patterns, evaluation pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or real-time streaming infrastructure.

- Proven ability to author comprehensive technical design docs, evaluate trade-offs (e.g., latency, cost, determinism, maintainability), and make durable architectural decisions.

- Track record of acting as a Tech Lead or Area of Responsibility (AoR) owner,successfully driving multi-contributor projects from ambiguity to delivery while navigating cross-team dependencies.

- Passion for mentoring and coaching fellow engineers, providing actionable code and design feedback, and establishing long-term engineering best practices.

- Deep empathy for the end-user experience, understanding how backend architecture and model behaviours directly affect user trust, interface latency, and workflow reliability.

**What we’ll offer**

- Estimated base salary range: $176,000 - $200,000

- Comprehensive compensation package, including equity, sales incentive pay, and benefits

- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits

- Career coaching & support

- Inclusive family building benefits

- Long-term savings or retirement plans

- In-office culinary options

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- LLMs
- agentic patterns
- evaluation pipelines
- retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- real-time streaming infrastructure
- distributed systems
- microservices
- full-stack architectures

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