Software Engineer, Notion

• Familiarity with Datastore Systems: You have experience with large scale relational databases, distributed caches, and NoSQL systems
• You understand how to design, scale, and optimize them to support growing business needs
• Our team utilizes cloud-based datastore solutions like AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache to power our infrastructure
• Systems thinker: You understand distributed systems and can design solutions that account for tradeoffs like consistency, latency, and scalability
• Pragmatic problem-solver: You prioritize business impact and understand the balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability
• You’re opinionated but not ideological, and you learn new technologies as you go
• Ownership and initiative: You thrive in a fast-moving, unstructured environment and are comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems
• You act with a bias toward action and focus on results
• Customer Empathy: You excel at collaborating across teams, offering guidance and solutions to unblock engineers and support them in building reliable systems
• With empathy at the core of your approach, you focus on addressing the needs of those who depend on datastore infrastructure

Desirable

• Datastore infrastructure is the backbone of any software product, and at Notion, it plays a critical role in ensuring our millions of users have a fast, reliable, and secure experience
• Our Datastore Infra Team builds and maintains the systems that power the databases and caches behind every Notion feature
• From scaling our relational and NoSQL databases to designing data migration frameworks, we ensure that Notion’s data layer remains robust and future-proof
• As part of the Datastore Infra Team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape how Notion manages and scales its foundational data services, enabling innovation across the company
• You will drive the evolution of our datastore infrastructure to meet the needs of over 100 million global users and support the rapid growth of our product and business
• This includes ensuring our systems are reliable, efficient, and scalable, while evaluating and integrating new technologies to keep us ahead of emerging challenges
• Your work will empower our engineers to build features with confidence, backed by a strong datastore foundation
• You will design and deliver a Datastore Platform that simplifies how teams manage and interact with data at scale
• From flexible schema management to migrating hundreds of billions of records, you’ll develop tools and frameworks that make it easier for engineers to innovate while maintaining safety, efficiency, and performance
• You will develop the skills and confidence to debug live production systems with minimal disruption, whether replacing components or managing failovers
• You will participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability and quickly restore normal operations
• You will partner with product engineers and other infra teams to ensure our datastore infrastructure aligns with evolving business needs and product goals