Software Engineer, Notion
Infrastructure, Early Career
$126-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
Be an early applicant
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$126-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help everyone build beautiful tools for their life’s work.
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 $2 billion 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 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. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly office
- 401k matching
- Parental leaave
- Free lunches
- Equipment stipend
- Monthly commuter credits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We are drivers of our mission. We’re driven by our commitment to empower every person on the planet to use software exactly the way they want.
- We are pace setters. We move with urgency so we can set the cadence for our market, cover more ground, and ship more great products and programs for our users, faster.
- We are truth seekers. We pursue the best data, ideas, and solutions with rigor and open-mindedness, always guided by our users’ most pressing needs.
- We are kind and direct. We deliver feedback in the spirit of helping our colleagues improve, balancing sensitivity with caring honesty. We’re in this together.
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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