Director of Security EngineeringActive$306K–$360K

The opportunity

At Asana, security is foundational to our mission of helping teams work together effortlessly. Our Security organization protects Asana’s employees, users, and customers by proactively addressing threats, enabling secure product development, and embedding security into the fabric of how we operate.

What you'll do

  • Build security by construction, design and default throughout all of Asana’s products and infrastructure.

  • Accelerate the development lifecycle by building and owning frameworks,: interfaces, services and libraries that solves security problems and frees other Asanas to focus.

  • Be the voice of the customer in driving security features in our products and: making those product features a differentiator for Asana.

  • Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of: technical excellence, psychological safety, and high accountability.

  • Own the security engineering roadmap, ensuring high-quality and high-velocity: delivery and measurable risk reduction through effective prioritization and data-driven operations.

  • Drive recruiting efforts to attract top-tier talent and establish clear, ambitious career paths for your team.

What they're looking for

  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to embed security requirements: directly into system designs and development workflows.
  • Oversee complex design reviews, providing pragmatic guidance to ensure: Asana’s infrastructure and features are inherently secure.
  • + years of experience in a combination of security and software engineering,: including 3+ years of experience directly managing high-performing engineering teams.
  • A strong background in software engineering with the ability to participate: in deep-dive design reviews and provide technical direction on architecture and code.