Software Engineer, Data Platform (Foundations Lead)
Notion · Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States · Remote
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $281K–$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
Notion’s Data Foundations team builds and operates the batch and streaming infrastructure behind our product features, analytics, search, and AI experiences. We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to shape the next generation of this platform as Notion…
What You'll Achieve
Set the direction for Data Foundations. Turn ambiguous company and customer needs into a clear multi-quarter strategy across the data lake, streaming, distributed compute, governance, and platform reliability—and align engineers and partner teams around it.…
Skills You'll Need to Bring
Deep data-platform expertise. You have designed and operated large-scale batch and streaming systems and can reason across storage, compute, ingestion, orchestration, serving, governance, and production operations. Direction-setting leadership. You have led a…
The Systems and Problems You May Lead
Evolving Notion’s data lake toward an S3 + Iceberg lakehouse with stronger governance, discoverability, schema evolution, and lifecycle controls Scaling Kafka and Debezium-based streaming infrastructure that powers real-time product, analytics, and AI use…
Why This Role Matters
Notion’s data infrastructure is no longer only an internal analytics layer. It increasingly powers customer-facing features, AI systems, enterprise controls, and high-volume product workflows. The team needs a leader who can see across these systems, build…
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…
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