Software Engineer, Admin Area
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Listing for:
Asana
Remote/Work from Home
position
Listed on 2026-01-13
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Staff Software Engineer, Admin Area
||Staff Software Engineer, Admin Area
Vancouver, BC
The Product team builds features end-to-end. From designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software. We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team. We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements—thanks to our continuous deployment architecture. We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Management team in our Vancouver Office. The team plays a vital role in understanding the Asana data graph and ensuring the integrity and compliant use of data across the product. You’ll work on essential features touching the entire customer data lifecycle, such as data exports, object archiving, trashing & recovery, and audit logs.
All of these are fundamental for Enterprise customers and involve handling and managing large-scale datasets to ensure smooth and secure operations.
Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to dive deep into Asana’s data graph, gaining a deep understanding of how data is managed le compliance is a key focus, our work goes beyond and empowers customers to efficiently manage their data across large, complex environments. You will implement efficient algorithms for handling vast datasets and work closely with cross-functional teams, including core infrastructure, product, and legal, to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
This role is based in our Vancouver 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
Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software qualityContribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segmentWork closely with Product Managers and Engineers to create simple and scalable technical solutions that have a strong impact on the application’s architecture and design.Drive technical strategies that cross over other team surfaces and align with such teams and stakeholders to get buy-in and implement such strategies.Be exposed to Asana’s core infrastructure, particularly how data is represented, stored and deleted in the storage layer.Put to practice your strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and scalability patterns in various technical aspects of the platform such as working with asynchronous jobs and efficiently traversing the Asana Work Graph.Work with legal to implement data ownership rules, requiring simple and effective technical solutions to make this process easy and clear to customers.Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizationsAbout you
5+ years of software development experience with 2+ years mentoring/coaching other engineers on impactful software projects.Experience working in ambiguous and complex technical spaces and creating clarity and alignment with partners and stakeholders.Have a track record of designing and implementing solutions to complex business problems. You have skillfully influenced and got buy-in from stakeholders and other teams to adopt/implement these solutions.Comfortable and autonomously debugging and fixing tricky issues in various parts of the software stack, particularly on the backend.Have a strong breath of knowledge of software concepts and design patterns that you can comfortably apply to make technical solutions scalable and robust.Excited about mentoring and coaching teammates and stakeholders and contributing to leveling the teamExperience driving projects of medium to large complexity.You have a continuous improvement mindset and are never satisfied with the status quo, whether it's about the architecture, the code or the…
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