Notion is looking to build and operate a platform that powers its services for millions of users, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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)
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability and quickly restore normal operations.
Other
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, productminded approach.
- In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture, with required work from offices on Mondays and Thursdays.
- 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.
- Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
