Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure: Shaping and building core frameworks for reading and writing data in Notion, integrating feedback from internal customers. Focus on designing new systems and abstractions to improve developer productivity, reliability, and performance.

Location: Must work from offices on Mondays and Thursdays in San Francisco, California, or New York, New York.

Salary: $209,000 - $240,000 per year (San Francisco or New York City)

Company

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.

What you will do

• Shape and build the core frameworks that enable reading and writing data in Notion.
• Design new systems and abstractions that improve developer productivity, reliability, and performance.
• Solve hard technical challenges such as designing abstractions for efficient traversal of the user content graph.

Requirements

• Thoughtful problem-solving: you can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution.
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: you care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly.
• Strive for simplicity: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and aim for the most simple and well-crafted design.
• Not ideological about technology: Technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs.
• Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time.
• Team player: You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals.

Nice to have

• You have leveraged the features of typed languages (e.g. TypeScript, Flow) to drive code migrations, or have implemented your own data modeling paradigms.
• You have seen how fundamental abstractions scale within a large codebase, and are curious about how different organizations solve similar problems.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.
• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture.
• All team members work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays.
• Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.