Principal Engineer, Enterprise

We’re hiring a Principal Engineer into our Enterprise team to lead cross-organizational initiatives to enable Asana to scale to our largest enterprise customers, including user and data administration, billing systems, API frameworks, and permissions and sharing models. We focus on building these enterprise-scale capabilities while preserving the craft and user delight that defines a consumer-grade product experience. Our work directly impacts how the world's largest organizations leverage Asana to transform their productivity and achieve ambitious goals, ensuring that powerful enterprise functionality doesn't compromise the intuitive, beautiful experiences that make Asana special.

This role is based in our San Francisco 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:

• Shape the technical strategy and decision-making across the Enterprise team, and ensure alignment with business objectives and cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor and grow multiple senior engineers through individual coaching and technical workshops, helping them develop skills in technical strategy, system design, and decision-making.
• Tackle complex technical challenges spanning multiple programs, particularly in areas like permissions architecture, compliance systems, data administration, and design scalable solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Design leaders to ensure technical considerations like performance, scalability, and engineering velocity are thoughtfully integrated into product decisions.
• Champion technical excellence and best practices across the Enterprise team, evolving principles, patterns, and processes to help teams ship quickly while maintaining high standards and consumer-grade user experience quality.
• Handle technical escalations involving senior leadership, facilitate resolutions for complex disagreements and technical trade-offs impacting multiple teams or long-term architecture.
• Design system boundaries and ownership models empowering team autonomy while ensuring cohesive technical architecture across enterprise-focused features and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with external partners including strategic vendors, enterprise customers, and technical partners, representing Asana's technical capabilities while building valuable relationships.

About you:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of leading technical strategy in complex, multi-team environments, preferably in enterprise software or B2B SaaS (or equivalent experience in related technical leadership roles).
• You enjoy mentoring and developing others, and have demonstrated success helping senior engineers grow into technical leaders and expand their scope and impact.
• Strong expertise in several areas of scalable system architecture, such as multi-tenancy, complex permissions systems, compliance frameworks, user and data administration, API design, billing platforms, or enterprise security models.
• You thrive in collaborative environments and have experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to balance technical and business considerations.
• You successfully navigate complex technical discussions with multiple senior stakeholders, using strong communication skills to facilitate decision-making and build consensus.
• You understand enterprise platform challenges such as complex permissions and access control systems, compliance features and requirements, user administration at scale, data governance and administration, API frameworks, or scaling consumer-grade user experiences to enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
• Experience identifying and solving systemic technical problems impacting multiple teams, with experience in areas like technical debt management, architectural evolution, or cross-team coordination.
• You connect technical work to business impact with the ability to communicate technical strategy to non-technical leadership and understand how engineering decisions drive business outcomes.

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 $336,000 - $395,000. 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 modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences 

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.

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