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Forward Deployed Engineer, India

Notion · Posted Sep 15

Note-taking, project management, wiki, and AI-powered workspace solutions

Hyderabad, IndiaFull-timeHybridSenior Level3–6 years₹45.0L–₹85.0L yearly100+ applicants
Productivity SoftwareSaaSCollaborationArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareLate Stage
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About the role

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. The Forward Deployed Engineer, India role focuses on migrations, helping deliver complex, production-grade data migrations, integrations, and automations for customers across APAC. As a founding engineer in India, you will own the behind-the-scenes technical execution layer and build migration infrastructure, standards, and reusable tooling used by FDEs across APAC.

What you will do

  • Own the technical execution layer after customer requirements, scope, and solution architecture have been established with the regional FDE. Contribute to feasibility assessment, estimation, implementation planning, and risk identification while the regional FDE remains accountable for customer discovery, scope, architecture, stakeholder communication, and final acceptance.
  • Apply a repeatable migration lifecycle covering source inventory and sampling, scope and pruning decisions, compatibility and degradation assessment, transformation design, pilot or dry run, user acceptance testing, production cutover, reconciliation, remediation, hypercare, and documented handoff.
  • Translate approved customer and regional FDE requirements into clear technical designs, implementation plans, test strategies, runbooks, and delivery estimates.
  • Build production-quality migration utilities, backend services, data pipelines, integrations, and automations using Python, SQL, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Investigate source-system behavior, data quality issues, permissions, rate limits, authentication constraints, and edge cases, then recommend practical solutions.
  • Design and validate permissions, ownership, and inheritance mappings against the approved migration plan. Make unsupported or ambiguous access requirements explicit, obtain the required decision or approval, and preserve evidence of validation.
  • Design migrations for reliability, scale, security, observability, idempotency, failure recovery, and safe reruns.
  • Execute migrations only through approved environments, devices, accounts, and tooling. Follow least-privilege access, customer-specific security and data-residency requirements, and approved handling procedures. Do not store customer data in unmanaged local or external systems, and escalate privacy, security, or sovereignty concerns before execution.
  • Build validation and reconciliation frameworks that provide clear evidence of migration completeness, accuracy, and exceptions.
  • Debug failures across application code, infrastructure, customer data, third-party systems, and the Notion platform, then drive issues through resolution.
  • Manage multiple implementation workstreams, dependencies, and priorities while communicating scope, progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
  • Surface scope changes, unsupported requirements, timeline risks, and material effort increases early. Document assumptions and trade-offs, and escalate with options and a recommended path rather than silently absorbing additional work.
  • Maintain an auditable record of scope, decisions, risks, approvals, validation evidence, and customer acceptance criteria in the agreed shared workspace or channel.
  • Convert repeated delivery patterns into reusable components, automation, documentation, and playbooks that improve speed, quality, and cost over time.
  • Bring field learnings back to Notion's Product and Engineering teams as actionable platform feedback and technical requirements.

Skills used in this role

PythonNode.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLREST APIsJSONGitWebhooksData ModelingData TransformationRelational DatabasesCloud InfrastructureBackend EngineeringData EngineeringIntegration EngineeringTechnical ConsultingSolutions EngineeringDebuggingAnalytical

What the employer is looking for

  • 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, data engineering, integration engineering, implementation engineering, technical consulting, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role.
  • Strong hands-on Python development experience.
  • Working experience with Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and data transformation.
  • Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, webhooks, and system integrations.
  • Experience owning a production migration, integration, or technical implementation through mapping, transformation, testing, rollout, validation, and handoff.
  • Experience taking a technical problem from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production operation.
  • Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, release practices, and production deployment.
  • Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits and support

  • Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting

About Notion

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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

Sequoia CapitalIndex VenturesCoatue ManagementAccelFirst Round Capital
  • 2021-09-28Series D$275M
  • 2020-03-30Series C$50M
  • 2019-07-02Angel$18.2M

Leadership

IZ
Ivan Zhao

Co-Founder & CEO

AK
Akshay Kothari

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

RK
Rama Katkar

Chief Financial Officer

EA
Erica Anderson

Chief Revenue Officer

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