Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Security (San Francisco)

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your lifes work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and emailwith AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

The Infrastructure Security team's mission is to establish foundations for a secure-by-default infrastructure serving all of Notion's technical stacks. We build and operate the guardrails that harden Notion's cloud, and manage identity and privileged access to reduce critical infrastructure risk.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for evolving our infrastructure security strategy and technical architecture, supporting a team of distributed senior engineers to drive execution, and hiring and developing talent on the team. You will play a critical role in safeguarding our platform while ensuring the privacy and security of our users. Additionally, as an engineering leader, you will help elevate Notion's entire engineering organization and security culture.

What You'll Achieve:

• Build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of security engineers, supporting a healthy environment that embodies Notion's values

• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers, ensuring they receive regular feedback and make progress on personal and professional goals

• Facilitate planning, including the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work, for the team

• Establish and uphold clear standards for access management, cloud infrastructure, and data handling that demonstrate industry best practices

• Partner with detection and response teams on effective vulnerability triage and incident response processes

• Own execution to develop a steady cadence of delivering security improvements while maintaining high-quality standards
  

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience leading infrastructure security engineering teams, with a track record of successfully implementing cloud security controls, IAM systems, and secure infrastructure foundations

• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, infrastructure as code, and secure architecture principles

• Experience in designing and implementing infrastructure security guardrails and access management systems in AWS environments

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure, data, and product engineering teams

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering secure and scalable infrastructure solutions

• Commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams, with a focus on fostering an empowering and supportive work environment
  

Nice to Haves:

• You have managed engineering teams at startups before, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change

• You've managed teams that are across multiple offices

• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and othersand understand why we're big fans of their work

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If youre excited about a role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If youre a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the roles scope and complexity, and the candidates experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. The estimated base salary range for this role is $230k - $275k per year.

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