Software Engineer, Notion
Search Platform
$220-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
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The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 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
- 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
- You have experience building full-text search using, e.g: Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr
- You have experience with designing, building and maintaining complex distributed systems
- You have experience with large scale data processing technologies, e.g: Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, YARN/Hadoop
- You have tuned the throughput of a complex asynchronous system
- You have worked at a fast-growing start-up, a SaaS company, or are eager to contribute in such an environment (being a current Notion user would be great!)
- You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work
What the job involves
- 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
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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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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