Principal Security Engineer, Asana
$336-395k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Work management platform
Open for applications
Work management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$336-395k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help humanity thrive by enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in a security-related engineering role, with 3+ years in a staff or principal-level role
- Experience as a technical lead across multiple teams, influencing direction beyond direct ownership
- Strong software engineering background, with the ability to engage deeply in system design, security architecture, and complex technical trade-offs
- Deep understanding of application and platform risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10), identity and access controls (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), and modern attack patterns
- Significant, hands-on experience securing cloud environments at scale, especially AWS
- You excel at evaluating security trade-offs, making pragmatic, risk-informed decisions, and communicating those decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated 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 the job involves
- The Security team ensures that our users, employees, and platform are protected from malicious activity and accidental data exposure
- We build secure-by-default systems, frameworks, and tooling that enable engineering teams to ship fast without compromising trust
- Our focus includes least-privilege access, scalable detection and alerting, automation to eliminate entire classes of risk, and security that grows with the business
- We are seeking a Principal Security Engineer to provide technical leadership and execution across a complex, global, high-growth SaaS environment
- This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Security, with accountability for defining security architecture, setting technical direction, and driving cross-company alignment between Security, Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership
- You are both a strategist and a builder: setting long-term vision while remaining deeply hands-on with system design, security architecture, and critical incidents
- Define and deliver the Security Engineering technical strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with Asana’s product, platform, and business priorities
- Raise the technical bar across security engineering through design and risk reviews, hands-on mentorship, and clear standards
- Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure to improve Asana’s overall security posture
- Develop security policies, processes, and procedures that scale with a growing, global engineering organization
- Help grow the security engineering team through recruiting and interviewing
- Stay ahead of the threat landscape and support teams building new features and technologies to ensure they are secure by design
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Development: We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways.
- Career growth: Your growth at Asana centers on ownership, access, and choice. All employees can tap into resources that support their growth and their team’s growth in the way that works best for their unique needs.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dan Rogers
(CEO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Dan was the CEO of LaunchDarkly, a President at Rubrik, and the CMO at ServiceNow and Symantec.
Aziz Megji
(CFO)Aziz joined Asana in 2024 as the Head of Strategic Finance & IR, moving into the role of CFO in 2026. Previously, they worked at RingCentral as an SVP of Finance, at NVIDIA as a Senior Director of Corporate Development and at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a VP of Corporate Development.
Arnab Bose
(CPO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Arnab spent 6 years at Okta, joining as an SVP of Product Management before moving into the role of CPO. They were also an Advisor at Codified and a VP of Product Management at Quip.
Prachi Gore
(CMO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Prachi spent nearly 6 years at Checkr as a VP then Senior VP of Marketing. They also spent nearly 4 years at Smart Recruiters as a VP of Demand Generation then Marketing.
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