Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer, Notion
$130-250k
2+ days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
Job no longer available
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$130-250k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Role
Who you are
- You’re comfortable diving into any part of the system (application code, configuration, deployment pipeline, internal / external services and APIs)
- You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup
- You understand the importance of setting the engineering quality bar for the long term success of our business, but are able to make difficult prioritizations
- You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly
- You bring multiple years of expertise in a few of the following areas:
- Cloud architecture / security group architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Cloud cost efficiency / capacity planning / auto-scaling
- Infrastructure as code / terraform
- Debugging production systems
- Networking / load balancing / CDN / proxies / caching
- Containerization, deployment, and config management
- Relational and non-relational database architecture and management
- Identity and access management
Desirable
- Experience in scaling a hyper-growth startup
- Experience building file storage and delivery infrastructure
- Experience with implementing robust backups and disaster recovery
- Experience with multi-region failovers or multi-datacenter deployments
- You can drive multi-month projects end-to-end with minimal management and cross-functional support
- You've managed, maintained, and monitored systems using Amazon Web Services, Datadog, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch
What the job involves
- The Cloud Infrastructure team is a new team tasked with architecting, delivering, and operating the foundational cloud environment that powers Notion
- As a founding engineer on the team, you'll work on the fundamental infrastructure components that all other teams at Notion build upon to guide Notion through the next few years of growth
- Help build a vision and roadmaps for this team, including Notion’s strategy on service provisioning, disaster recovery, and environment isolation / consistency
- Partner closely with the broader engineering team to capacity plan and ensure an efficient and predictable cloud workload
- Partner with the security engineering team to harden Notion’s cloud environment
- Help drive large cross-functional projects, such as helping Notion achieve data residency in multiple data centers
Our take
Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.
The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2B valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.
The company has also made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. However, with a growing wave of competitors emerging, including offerings like Microsoft Loop, Notion will need to keep innovating and evolving to maintain its edge and stay ahead in an increasingly crowded market.
Steph
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ivan Zhao
(CEO)Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.
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