infrastructure
Posted Oct 3, 2025Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure
at Notion
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Design new systems and abstractions that improve developer productivity, reliability, and performance by handling entire classes of problems up-front for product engineers.
Requirements
- 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 email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work.
- WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE: - Shape and build the core frameworks that enable reading and writing data in Notion, integrating feedback from internal customers along the way, using whatever tools are required for the job, such as AWS, Postgres, NodeJS, TypeScript, React on the frontend.
- SKILLS YOU’LL NEED TO BRING: - Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context.
- You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same. - You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.
- TypeScript, Flow) to drive code migrations, or have implemented your own data modeling paradigms (e.g. writing your own ORM, sync engine, or query language). - You have seen how fundamental abstractions scale within a large codebase, and are curious about how different organizations solve similar problems (e.g.
Benefits
- 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 role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s
Additional details
- ABOUT US: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s 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, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days.
- Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
- ABOUT THE PRODUCT INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM: The Product Infrastructure team works on creating abstractions and data models that solve enduring problems across the stack.
- We solve problems that span multiple product surfaces and typically stretch across both front-end and backend and unblock new product avenues that were previously challenging to create.
- - Solve hard technical challenges such as designing abstractions for efficient traversal of the user content graph, building a system to sync user content for offline use, or scaling our permission model to serve large customers with complex content.
- You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution. - Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly.
- You're not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. - Strive for simplicity: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and aim for the most simple and well-crafted design.