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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Asana · New York City · On-site

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About Asana

Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together. Backed by a16z and Founders Fund.

About the role

This role can be based in our New York or San Francisco offices with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience working as a technical contributor in large-scale products
  • 2+ years of experience at 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
More about this role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to play a key leadership role in our Developer Productivity group and drive developer velocity and fundamentally change the software development lifecycle with AI. The scope spans across the stack including tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure to provide full leverage in the developer experience for every software developer at Asana. Some of the teams’ current work include building out our internal agentic harness, setting up our online/offline developer evals, and increasing the effectiveness of our automated validation loop. The importance and scope of this work has grown significantly in the last year, and we need someone operating at the group level to help sequence and execute it.

This role can be based in our New York or San Francisco offices with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

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