Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The engineer will evolve and operate Notion’s async task runner and configuration management platform, supporting reliability and scalability for more than 100 million users. The role requires at least four years of software development experience and knowledge of distributed systems, production operations, and infrastructure tradeoffs.

About the job

Responsibilities

Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of Notion’s internal async task runner, supporting more than 100 million global users.
Maintain and scale the configuration management platform for product and infrastructure engineers.
Evaluate and integrate technologies to address emerging infrastructure challenges.
Debug live production systems with minimal disruption, including replacing components and managing failovers.
Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and restore normal operations quickly.
Partner with product engineers and infrastructure teams to align platforms with business and product needs.

Requirements

At least 4 years of software development experience.
Understanding of distributed systems and tradeoffs involving consistency, latency, and scalability.
Pragmatic problem-solving skills, with attention to business impact, maintainability, and delivery speed.
Ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and work effectively in a fast-paced, unstructured environment.
Strong cross-functional collaboration and customer empathy.
Curiosity about and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity.

Benefits and Compensation

Opportunity to work on infrastructure supporting more than 100 million global users.
Participation in an on-call rotation.
Opportunity to develop expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed Systems, Configuration Management, Async Task Runners, Infrastructure, Production Debugging, Failover Management, Scalability, Consistency, Latency, On-Call Operations