Software Engineer

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion.

The Product Platform team is responsible for designing, implementing, scaling and operating systems, tools and frameworks to build event-based or data powered product experiences. You’ll join a team of talented engineers in our mission to build the best in class foundational platforms that are key to the company’s business and product. Notion’s platforms and infrastructure are vital to enabling our product features like search, automations, user notifications, workspace analytics and Notion AI.

What You'll Achieve:

• You'll own and play a pivotal role in the development of systems, tools and infrastructure that enable data and data systems powered product use-cases.

• You'll work cross-functionally with engineers and partners from the Product, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI teams to deliver short- and long-term impact.

• You’ll work on all levels of the stack including infrastructure, libraries and product code as needed to successfully build and deliver internal platforms that provide high leverage to multiple product teams

• You’ll help in influencing / executing the roadmap for streaming infrastructure and systems to power high scale product features using Notion’s data.

• You'll be responsible for monitoring and operating systems in production. You’ll understand systems deeply, optimize performance and evolve critical production systems with minimal user disruption.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• An eye for unlocking products with platforms. You design for today’s use-cases while anticipating tomorrow’s, ensuring the platform scales across teams and workloads. You bring a product mindset to platform work, shaping tools that developers genuinely want to adopt.

• Passion for systems at scale: You have worked on data or infrastructure-focused engineering teams, particularly ones that own a wide swath of software platforms (hosted or built in-house). You've experienced the challenges of scaling and re-architecting event-based platforms and infrastructure through orders of magnitude of growth and scaling data volume. You deeply care about performance and cost while delivering value.

• Adaptable and willingness to learn how things work: you love to learn how the systems you build are used at a fundamental level. You get excited at the idea of leaning into your users’ world and help make it better.

• Thoughtful problem-solving & problem-seeking: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. After gaining context, you can identify patterns and scope for improvements.

• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about the business impact of what you're building, and you prioritize projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.

• Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and disagree and commit when needed.

• Team player: You understand work is better, together. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.

• You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Nice to Haves:

• You've built out and scaled event-based platforms at a fast-growing startup.

• You’ve had prior experience with asynchronous workflow systems or event-based architecture, using technologies like Kafka and Redis.

• You’ve had past experience working full-stack in Typescript and node.js ecosystem

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $230,000 - $260,000 per year.

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