Senior Software Engineer, AI
$176k - $200k • Vancouver, BC
Posted 8h ago
Job Location
Vancouver, BC
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Asana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its AI organization in Vancouver, focusing on pioneering a new category of technology as a human-agent operating system. This role involves doubling down on Asana's AI Suite to provide customers with end-to-end intelligent orchestration. Depending on team placement, you might lead architecture for the core agentic runtime, develop high-throughput evaluation and safety infrastructure, or build sophisticated customer-facing tools for coordinating humans and AI agents. The position offers a streamlined technical interview process with a focus on matching candidates to the ideal team.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large AI projects.
- Guide and collaborate with multiple engineers on AI roadmap initiatives.
- Design robust, extensible, and performant systems for agentic execution, prompt-driven automation, and model orchestration.
- Ensure strict enterprise-grade data boundaries within AI systems.
- Solve complex technical problems by balancing technical debt, developer velocity, execution risk, and business goals.
- Anticipate customer and architectural risks, breaking down ambiguous product visions into clear engineering milestones.
- Champion technical excellence through design documentation, retrospectives, and testing norms.
- Mentor engineers across levels to improve engineering practices.
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to define requirements and align technical direction.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in designing, building, and maintaining production distributed systems, microservices, or complex full-stack architectures.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple services or codebases.
- 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 documents.
- Experience evaluating trade-offs (e.g., latency, cost, determinism, maintainability) and making durable architectural decisions.
- Track record of acting as a Tech Lead or Area of Responsibility owner, driving multi-contributor projects from ambiguity to delivery.
- Experience navigating cross-team dependencies.
- Passion for mentoring and coaching engineers, providing feedback, and establishing best practices.
- Deep empathy for the end-user experience and understanding of how backend architecture affects user trust, interface latency, and workflow reliability.
- Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them.
Benefits
- Equity
- Sales incentive pay (for most sales roles)
- Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
- Career coaching & support
- Inclusive family building benefits
- Long-term savings or retirement plans
- In-office culinary options