Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Notion · Posted Sep 29
Note-taking, project management, wiki, and AI-powered workspace solutions
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About the role
Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together, bringing knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools into one place. The Hyderabad Infra team builds and maintains Notion's internal async task runner, which underpins a fast, reliable, and secure experience for millions of users, along with the configuration management platform used by product and infrastructure engineers. This role contributes to scaling and maintaining the async task runner, debugging live production systems, participating in on-call, and partnering with product engineers and other infra teams.
What you will do
- You will contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our async task runner to meet the needs of over 100 million global users and support the rapid growth of our product and business.
- With guidance from senior team members, you'll help ensure our systems remain reliable, efficient, and scalable. You'll evaluate and integrate new technologies to keep us ahead of emerging challenges.
- Your work will empower our engineering team to build features confidently while you grow your skills in distributed systems and infrastructure.
- You will develop the skills and confidence to debug live production systems with minimal disruption, whether replacing components or managing failovers. You will participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability and quickly restore normal operations.
- You will partner with product engineers and other infra teams to ensure our platforms align with evolving business needs and product goals.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- A software developer with at least 4 years of experience and the ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment.
- Systems thinker: You understand distributed systems and can design solutions that account for tradeoffs like consistency, latency, and scalability.
- Pragmatic problem-solver: You prioritize business impact and understand the balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability. You're opinionated but not ideological, and you learn new technologies as you go.
- Ownership and initiative: You thrive in a fast-moving, unstructured environment and are comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems. You act with a bias toward action and focus on results.
- Customer Empathy: You excel at collaborating across teams, offering guidance and solutions to unblock engineers and support them in building reliable systems. With empathy at the core of your approach, you focus on addressing the needs of those who depend on the async task runner.
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Notion
Notion is a digital workspace platform combining note-taking, document creation, project management, and relational databases into a single customizable interface. The company empowers individuals and enterprises globally to build tailored workflows and utilize embedded AI assistant features. Serving over 100 million users, Notion operates on a freemium model utilized widely by startups and Fortune 500 companies alike.
- Industry
- Productivity Software
- Company size
- 1000-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Series D
Funding
Series D · $418M raised
- 2021-09-28Series D$275M
- 2020-03-30Series C$50M
- 2019-07-02Angel$18.2M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Recent coverage
Medium
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Forbes
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