Forward Deployed Engineer

Asana Asana · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · AI GTM

Asana is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help product development organizations deploy Command, a new offering. This role involves working directly with customers to integrate Command into their systems, establish technical foundations, and translate customer-specific solutions into reusable product capabilities. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering and systems-thinking skills, experience with APIs and agent-based workflows, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Engineering leaders, platform teams, administrators, and hands-on builders to connect Command to the systems where work already happens
  2. Establish the technical and operational foundations for adoption and help teams develop more effective ways of planning, building, shipping, and learning
  3. Move between cloud infrastructure, integrations, workflow design, automation, product enablement, and engineering coaching
  4. Work directly in customer environments — configuring secure access to source-control, CI/CD, ticketing, and identity systems, or pairing with engineering teams to design release workflows and help leaders clarify the context their agents and teams need to make good decisions
  5. Write production-quality code when needed and turn customer-specific solutions into reusable product capabilities

Skills

Required

  • Software engineering
  • Forward deployed engineering
  • Customer engineering
  • Solutions engineering
  • Implementation engineering
  • Technical customer-facing role
  • Coding skills
  • Systems-thinking skills
  • API integration
  • Event flows
  • Data models
  • Permissions
  • Automation
  • Agent-based workflows
  • Technical judgment
  • Customer interaction
  • Ambiguous environments
  • Communication skills

Nice to have

  • AI tools
  • Emerging technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, customer engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role
  • Strong coding and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to move from whiteboard to production
  • Strong understanding of product development and engineering workflows, and familiarity with the systems those teams use to plan, build, ship, and debug software
  • Experience building or integrating software across APIs, event flows, data models, permissions, automation, or agent-based workflows