Principal Software Engineer (Asana Platform)

• We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be the senior technical leader of this organization. You will own the architecture that Asana’s products and customers build on, and drive the initiatives too large or too risky for any one team to carry
• You will work with Asana’s most senior leaders to connect engineering plans to business outcomes, and shape where the platform takes the company next
• Set technical direction across Asana’s platform, from the Work Graph and its data model to the ecosystem of APIs and shared experiences that products, integrations, and agents build on
• Partner across the R&D organization, Security, and Legal to drive a portfolio of high-stakes, long-term initiatives that create leverage in how we build
• Set the bar for good platform design, including interface design, separation of concerns, and reliability and functional guarantees
• Make the high-stakes calls on build versus buy, on vendors, and on how to replatform without stopping product delivery, and make sure those decisions age well
• Bring a grounded view of the industry, and of how AI agents change what a work platform has to offer, into R&D strategy with Asana’s senior leadership
• Serve as the decision maker and backstop when a technical question cuts across pillars, and turn cross-org disagreement into a call people commit to
• Grow the technical leaders around you, from mentoring staff and senior staff engineers to creating scopes they can own outright
• Represent Asana’s platform engineering externally through talks and writing, and bring senior engineers in the door

Benefits

• Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
• Development: We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways.
• Career growth: Your growth at Asana centers on ownership, access, and choice. All employees can tap into resources that support their growth and their team’s growth in the way that works best for their unique needs.- Experience with multi-tenant enterprise SaaS, and with security and data governance for AI systems, is a plus
• You have led at least one major replatforming or migration in a system that could not stop serving customers while it changed
• Deep experience with distributed systems and with large, shared data models, including the performance and reliability work of running them for enterprise customers
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
• 12+ years building production software, including years spent setting technical direction across a large organization or several
• A clear view of where AI is taking platforms like ours, including agents as first-class actors and the governance enterprises demand when agents touch their work
• You have built platforms that other teams ship on, at a scale where mistakes are expensive, and your architectural decisions have proved right over years rather than quarters
• You have grown staff and senior staff engineers into larger scopes, and senior people seek you out to work with you
• Deep care for collaboration and an ability to foster an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and thrive
• You communicate at every level of a company, from a design review with engineers to a strategy discussion with executives, and translate between technical and business language in both directions
• If you’re interested in this role and don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply