Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Early Career (San Francisco)

Location

San Francisco, California, New York, New York

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

About Us:

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like OpenAI, Toyota, Figma, Ramp, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

About the Role:

As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Early Career), youll help build and operate the platform that powers Notion for millions of users. Youll work on services, storage, data, networking, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience to make our systems reliable, scalable, and efficient. Youll collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement highleverage infrastructure that enables product teams to ship quickly and safely.

What You'll Achieve:

• 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 oncall 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 infrastructureascode 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.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Proficiency in at least one generalpurpose 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, productminded approach.

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with distributed systems, databases, and concurrency.

• Familiarity with Linux, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS or GCP), and containers.

• Exposure to InfrastructureasCode (e.g., Terraform), container orchestration, or service meshes.

• Handson with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).

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.

Location:

San Francisco, CA or New York, NY, USA. Notion is an in-person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

Notion is an equal opportunity employer:

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. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $126k - $170k per year.

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