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Software Engineer, User Database Infrastructure

Notion · Engineering

Location
San Francisco, California, United States · Remote
Metro
San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace
Hybrid
Level
Staff+
Type
Full-time
Pay
$299K–$334K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted
1 month ago
Source
Ashby

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What the posting covers

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small…

About the Role

This role will be based in San Francisco. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during…

About the Team

The people who understand a business best aren’t always the people who can build its software. A support lead knows how tickets should be triaged. An operations manager knows how inventory should move. But turning that knowledge into a reliable system often…

What You'll Achieve

Take a new product from alpha to general availability. Work with early customers to understand what matters, iterate on feedback, and help shape what we ship. Make real customer workloads fast. Improve query execution, indexing, and client data loading so…

Skills You'll Need to Bring

Production relational database experience (e.g., Postgres or MySQL). You’ve made decisions about schemas and indexes, analyzed database performance, and debugged issues involving transactions, locking, or concurrency. Your experience goes beyond accessing a…

Nice to Haves

Experience managing fleets of databases or building database platforms, including provisioning, upgrades, backups, and recovery. Deep Postgres expertise, such as advanced query optimization, performance tuning, or workload isolation for large datasets and…

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when…