Software Engineer, Notion

Infrastructure, Early Career

$126-170k

+ Equity

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

C++

Rust

Prometheus

Grafana

Entry and Junior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

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

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

$126-170k

+ Equity

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Java

Linux

Terraform

C++

Rust

Prometheus

Grafana

Entry and Junior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Proficiency in at least one general‑purpose programming language such as Typescript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, Python, or C++
Solid CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, systems, and networking
Experience from internships or projects building backend services , infrastructure, or full stack products
Strong communication skills and a collaborative, product‑minded approach

Desirable

Familiarity with distributed systems, databases, and concurrency
Familiarity with Linux, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS or GCP), and containers
Exposure to Infrastructure‑as‑Code (e.g., Terraform), container orchestration, or service meshes
Hands‑on with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)

What the job involves

As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Early Career), you’ll help build and operate the platform that powers Notion for millions of users
You’ll work on services, storage, data, networking, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience to make our systems reliable, scalable, and efficient
You’ll collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement high‑leverage infrastructure that enables product teams to ship quickly and safely
Ship improvements to core infrastructure that increase reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
Contribute to backend systems that meet the needs of over 100 million global users, large enterprise customers, and our rapidly growing business
Build and maintain observability, alerting, and incident tooling to reduce MTTR and improve on‑call experience
Develop the skills and confidence to debug live production systems with minimal disruption. You will participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability and quickly restore normal operations
Automate operations with tooling and infrastructure‑as‑code to make our systems easy to run and evolve
Partner with our security teams to implement best practices for hardening, secrets, access, and compliance
Areas You Might Work On:
Storage and databases: schema design, migrations, performance tuning, caching
Compute and orchestration: service frameworks, containerization, CI/CD, rollout safety
Observability: metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, dashboards
Networking and edge: APIs, rate limiting, load balancing, traffic shaping, CDN
Platform foundations: developer tooling, local dev ergonomics, SDKs, testing infra
Reliability engineering: capacity planning, failover, disaster recovery, chaos testing

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.

Notion has also made several strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have positioned it well 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

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

45% female employees

183% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (2.4)

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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