about 2 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Scale the infrastructure behind Notion’s database block and Collections platform.
- Improve database load performance, reliability, and P95 performance under higher concurrency.
- Address high-volume writes from AI agents and larger enterprise workspaces.
- Build backend architecture and system boundaries that other Notion teams can build on.
- Use AI for learning systems, debugging, test generation, trace and log analysis, and implementation planning.
- Improve infrastructure quality through architecture, observability, documentation, and platform improvements.
- Partner with senior engineers and product-facing teams to balance internal developer needs with customer experience.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and interest in performance, reliability, scalability, and systems operating under real customer load.
- Curiosity about distributed systems, microservices, and data-layer trade-offs; experience in these areas is helpful but not required.
- Practical comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript, or the ability to ramp quickly in a codebase using those tools.
- Ability to investigate technical bottlenecks, iterate on solutions, and reason from first principles.
- Self-guided learning style using documentation, code, teammates, and AI to build context and solve ambiguous problems.
Benefits
- Based in San Francisco or New York City.
- Hybrid schedule with in-office Anchor Days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
- Competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
Tech Stack
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About Notion
Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, they're all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you, your team, and your whole company. We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Our team at Notion is on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.