Staff Software Engineer, AI Teammates

Asana is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its AI Teammates Platform. The role drives technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the platform’s agentic execution engine, orchestration, and APIs, enabling reliable AI capabilities across Asana. Responsibilities Set the technical strategy for the AI Teammates execution engine, tool orchestration, and platform APIs within Asana, advocating for engineering-driven investments with a vision for keeping our systems flexible, reliable, and maintainable to meet customer needs now and in the futureDrive the team to continually and holistically better itself, setting high standards for clean architecture, systems reliability, and evaluation methodologies while enabling the engineers around you to deliver at high velocity and grow their skillsBe a key collaborator with other groups across Engineering and a technical counterpart to the AI Teammates team’s Engineering Manager, serving as a partner to external model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) and representing our platform capabilities across team boundariesPartner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand agentic work patterns, and propose elegant solutions to make AI Teammates effective and trustworthyArchitect and own the composable platform foundation, partnering with product engineering teams to enable them to build agentic capabilities into their domains in a self-serve mannerOversee the execution of high-impact technical initiatives—from advanced proactivity and MCP integrations to model evals, latency tuning, and cost optimization—ensuring our systems scale safely with frontier LLM updates