Software Engineer, Data Platform Product

Notion • San Francisco, CA

82d • $230,000 - $260,000

About The Position

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. The Data Product Platform team is responsible for designing, implementing, scaling and operating systems, tools and frameworks to build data powered product experiences and to enable data driven decisions. You'll join a team of talented engineers in our mission to build the best in class foundational data capabilities that are key to the company's business and product. Notion's data platform and infrastructure are vital to both empowering every team at Notion to make decisions using data and experimentation, and enabling our product features like search, automations, user notifications, workspace analytics and Notion AI.

Requirements

• Passion for systems at scale: Experience on data or infrastructure-focused engineering teams, particularly ones that own a wide swath of software platforms.
• Knowledge of asynchronous workflow systems: Experience on systems that execute tasks asynchronously, handle complex workflows, and manage job scheduling.
• Adaptable and willingness to learn how things work: Excited to learn how the systems built are used at a fundamental level.
• Thoughtful problem-solving & problem-seeking: Ability to decompose tricky problems and work towards clean solutions.
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: Care about the business impact of what you're building and prioritize projects accordingly.
• Empathetic communication: Ability to communicate nuanced ideas clearly and engage thoughtfully with other perspectives.
• Team player: Enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals.

Nice To Haves

• Built out and scaled event-based platforms at a fast-growing startup.
• Prior experience with asynchronous workflow systems or event-based architecture, using technologies like Kafka and Redis.
• Past experience working full-stack in Typescript and node.js ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own and play a pivotal role in the development of systems, tools and infrastructure that democratize data access and enable analytics capabilities across the organization.
• Work cross-functionally with engineers and partners from the Product, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI teams to deliver short- and long-term impact.
• Work on all levels of the stack including infrastructure, libraries and product code as needed to successfully build and deliver internal platforms that provide high leverage to multiple product teams.
• Help in influencing / executing the roadmap for data infrastructure and systems to power high scale product features using Notion's data.
• Be responsible for monitoring and operating systems in production.
• Understand systems deeply, optimize performance and evolve critical production systems with minimal user disruption.

Benefits

• Highly competitive cash compensation
• Equity
• Benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services