Staff Software Engineer, AI Teammates

Asana is a platform for human and AI collaboration that helps teams orchestrate work and achieve important goals. The Staff Software Engineer will drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of the AI Teammates Platform, including agentic execution, tool orchestration, platform APIs, model evaluation, reliability, and scalability. The role also involves collaborating across engineering and product functions, partnering with external model providers, and mentoring engineers.

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 future
• Drive 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 skills
• Be 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 boundaries
• Partner 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 trustworthy
• Architect 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 manner
• Oversee 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