Greenhouse · Posted 2 Oct 2026

full-time

Principal Software Engineer, Asana Platform

Asana · New York City

Asana is a company that develops a work management platform designed to help teams orchestrate their work. As a Principal Software Engineer within the Platform organization, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture that supports all of Asana's products. Your day-to-day work involves defining the technical direction for the Work Graph, API ecosystem, and shared services. You will lead high-stakes, long-term engineering initiatives, make critical architectural decisions regarding platform scalability and reliability, and navigate the complexities of replatforming while maintaining continuous service. This role requires close collaboration with senior leadership to align engineering strategy with business outcomes and involves mentoring staff-level engineers to foster technical growth across the organization. The position is ideal for an experienced engineer with over 12 years of production software experience, specifically in building large-scale, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platforms. It suits a candidate who possesses deep expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and the integration of AI agents into enterprise workflows, and who is comfortable communicating complex technical strategies to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

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The Platform organization at Asana builds the services and shared experiences that every Asana product runs on. That starts with the Work Graph, where our customers' work lives, and the APIs that let people and AI agents act on it. It extends to the events and reporting systems built on the graph, to the extensibility layer that connects Asana to the tools and agents our customers use, and to new shared experiences that are used by all Asana’s customers. 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. This role is based in our New York office 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 you'll achieve 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 About you 12+ years building production software, including years spent setting technical direction across a large organization or several 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 Deep experience with distributed systems and with large, shared data models, including the performance and reliability work of running them for enterprise customers 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 led at least one major replatforming or migration in a system that could not stop serving customers while it changed 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 You have grown staff and senior staff engineers into larger scopes, and senior people seek you out to work with you Experience with multi-tenant enterprise SaaS, and with security and data governance for AI systems, is a plus Deep care for collaboration and an ability to foster an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and thrive Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. What we'll offer Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $365,500 - $380,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be

Role	Principal Software Engineer, Asana Platform
Company	Asana
Location	New York City
Type	full-time
Compensation	Not disclosed
Posted	2026-10-02
Deadline	Rolling

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About Asana

Asana is an operating system designed for human-agent teams to manage critical workflows. Founded in 2008, the platform utilizes the Asana Work Graph, a system that connects tasks, projects, goals, and dependencies to provide a shared context for both human users and AI agents. The software enables teams to collaborate within a shared space, utilizing shared memory to improve workflows over time while maintaining enterprise-grade governance, including audit trails and scoped permissions. Asana serves a wide range of organizations, including 85% of Fortune 100 companies, by providing tools for project management, compliance, portfolio monitoring, and cross-functional alignment. The platform is designed to help teams coordinate work, reduce time spent on status updates, and integrate AI agents directly into existing business processes.

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