Senior Privacy Engineer

About the position

The Security team at Asana is responsible for protecting Asana’s employees, users, and customers. We build innovative safeguards to ensure that our data is protected against threats and that we comply with legal, regulatory, and customer requirements while collaborating closely with teams across the organization. Reporting to Asana’s Head of Global Privacy, Data Protection, and Compliance, as a founding member of the Privacy Engineering team, you will shape how we build privacy into our products from the ground up—bridging the legal, regulatory, and technical dimensions of privacy across the company. This role can either be fully remote depending on which US state you live in, or based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. If based in-office: 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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical privacy-by-design reviews for new features and major architectural changes, embedding privacy controls early in the development lifecycle across our business, data, and product infrastructure.
  • Help drive compliance with global privacy regulations (such as GDPR and CCPA) by translating legal requirements into concrete engineering standards, frameworks, and tooling that facilitate velocity.
  • Evaluate and mitigate privacy risks in AI/ML systems, including training data pipelines and model outputs.
  • Build and operate systems that enable data rights for our users and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), such as data minimization and de-identification frameworks.
  • Conduct privacy impact assessments and threat modeling for high-risk data processing activities.
  • Advocate for privacy-preserving solutions, serve as a trusted technical advisor across the business, and identify new opportunities to improve our overall privacy posture.
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure our privacy policies and notices accurately reflect our underlying technology.
  • Develop customer-facing trust documentation on privacy and support privacy incident response efforts.
  • Design and implement privacy-preserving analytics and measurement systems that provide actionable insights while protecting individual user privacy.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on privacy or data protection.
  • Passion for privacy and data protection with a deep understanding of GDPR, CCPA, and emerging global privacy frameworks.
  • Proven experience building technical controls for data governance, including classification, lineage, retention, and deletion at scale.
  • Familiarity with privacy risks in ML systems, such as training data sourcing, model memorization, and inference privacy.
  • Strong foundation in privacy-by-design principles and hands-on experience applying them throughout product development.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory and legal requirements into clear engineering specifications.
  • Experience with cryptographic techniques, anonymization, and de-identification frameworks.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with legal, policy, and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

  • Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

Benefits

  • 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
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Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...

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