Software Engineer, Notion
Cloud Infrastructure
$130-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
$130-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- Software Engineer with Cloud Infrastructure Foundation: You are a hands-on software engineer who is an expert in contributing to large codebases and establishing strong patterns in greenfield projects.
- You bring a test-driven development mindset, carefully consider how your changes will affect production environments, and take steps to validate them
- You have expertise with cloud concepts, particularly in networking, compute optimization
- You build observability tools to validate changes and programmatically catch regressions
- Startup mentality: 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
- Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You don't just go after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
Desirable
- You have experience working with the following:
- Cloud Compute and Networking technologies - Cloudflare / AWS
- Cloud Efficiency - capacity planning, cost attribution
- Infrastructure as Code Technologies - Terraform / Pulumi / Typescript
- You are comfortable using AI tools to accelerate impact
What the job involves
- The Cloud Infrastructure team is a unique opportunity within Notion to architect the foundational cloud environment that can scale alongside Notion’s rapid growth
- As an engineer on the team, you'll work on the fundamental infrastructure components that all other teams at Notion build upon and guide Notion through the next few years of growth
- Drive the future of Cloud Infrastructure at Notion—you’ll lead our strategy and execution across compute, networking, and resource orchestration, ensuring our platform scales reliably and securely to serve 100M+ users worldwide. Including container orchestration, cloud cost efficiency, resilience, global expansion across regions while considering compliance and performance
- Hands on in building our next-generation self-service platform, partnering with product engineers to enable rapid, reliable deployment with strong guardrails—while reducing friction and increasing velocity across hundreds of developers. You'll be responsible for maintaining a high-quality bar for everything your team ships
- Lead by example in operational excellence—you’ll guide the team through high-severity incidents, eliminate our gaps in observability, improve incident response processes, and uphold reliability standards. You’ll participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and help shape Notion’s reliability culture
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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