# Software Engineer, Trust

**Company:** [Notion](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/notion)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Authentication, Security, Privacy, AI, LLMs, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, DynamoDB, Memcached, Machine Learning
**Posted:** 2026-05-07

> Builds authentication, security features, and AI-powered risk detection systems to ensure user trust and safety at scale. Requires 5-8 years experience in trust/safety/security with cross-functional collaboration.

## Job Description

## What You'll Achieve
- Build authentication and other product features that make Notion safe and secure by default, helping more people and teams trust Notion for their most important work while supporting growth across consumers and enterprise customers.
- Build scalable, AI-powered systems to detect, investigate, and mitigate risks across Notion, including phishing, spam, objectionable content, scraping, private API abuse, account takeover, and other forms of fraud and abuse.
- Shape the future of AI safety at Notion by building controls and guardrails for Notion AI, custom agents, and emerging AI workflows—helping make Notion the trusted AI workspace for individuals, teams, and enterprises.
- Partner across Trust & Safety, Engineering, Security, Legal, Data, and Product to make trust, privacy, and security a core part of how Notion scales.

## Skills You'll Need to Bring
- 5–8 years of experience building or securing products.
- Domain Expertise: Experience and a strong passion for trust, safety, authentication, security, or privacy.
- Ownership and initiative: Thrive in a fast-moving, unstructured environment and comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems. Act with a bias toward action and focus on results.
- Team player: Understand when work is better together. Enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and care about learning, growing, and helping others.
- Curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

## Nice to Haves
- Experience using AI (LLMs and/or classical ML) to solve trust or security problems at scale.
- Experience building AI-enabled applications in production (LLMs and/or classical ML).
- Proficient with any part of our technology stack: **React**, **TypeScript**, **Node.js**, **Postgres**, **Dynamo**, **Memcached**.

## Compensation
For roles based in San Francisco and New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is **$200k - $280k** per year.

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