Software Engineer, Notion

• Backend engineering
• Data infrastructure
• Search infrastructure
• Queueing systems
• At-least-once message delivery
• Multi-stage data pipelines; or
• Distributed systems
• You have a track record for shipping scalable and reliable user-facing products
• You thrive when collaborating cross-functionally — especially with product, design, infrastructure or data teams
• You have a computer science background or equivalent technical experience

Desirable

• Notion is looking for talented engineers to help build the next generation of our search infrastructure
• This team is responsible for ensuring that all of the content that our users keep in Notion is available for search
• You will provide the bedrock of our search and AI functionality by ensuring that our indexing systems and search clusters are comprehensive, instantaneous, and correct
• You’ll denormalize, preprocess, and index any and every type of Notion comment that our users might find useful
• You’ll find opportunities up and down the stack to maintain Notion’s stunningly quick indexing latency
• You’ll drive us towards correctness and consistency, ensuring that every change in the application is reflected in our search indices
• You’ll scale our search infrastructure up and out, owning both the hardware and the configurations of our indices
• You’ll drive us to a best-in-class position when it comes to user privacy, security, and Enterprise-level features
• You’ll own our feature-store infrastructure, making it easy for multiple teams to make high-value information quickly and cheaply available
• You’ll work with product engineers across the organization, consulting on data modeling and ingesting new types of content