Software Engineer User Database Infrastructure

Notion is an AI workspace for capturing team knowledge, finding answers, and automating work with agents.

San Francisco, United States
About Notion

Notion Labs, Inc. operates a collaborative workspace that combines documents, knowledge management, databases, projects, search, and AI-enabled automation. Its developer platform provides an API for connecting workspaces to external tools and automating workflows.

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About the Role

You will lead architecture and roadmap decisions for a database product while remaining hands-on. You will work with early customers, build database provisioning and fleet-management systems, improve schema evolution and query performance, strengthen reliability and observability, and contribute across backend and client code.

Requirements

  • Production relational database experience
  • Postgres or MySQL
  • 10+ years of production software engineering experience
  • Technical leadership
  • Backend engineering
  • Concurrency and failure handling
  • Query-plan analysis
  • Performance profiling
  • Cross-stack engineering
  • AI-assisted engineering

Responsibilities

  • Take a new product from alpha to general availability
  • Work with early customers and iterate on feedback
  • Improve query execution, indexing, and client data loading
  • Make schema changes, concurrent writes, permissions, and recovery reliable
  • Build database provisioning and fleet operations
  • Strengthen observability and evolve the architecture

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits
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