# Software Engineer, Collections Infra

**Company:** [Notion](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/notion)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Distributed Systems, Microservices, backend engineering, database infrastructure, Performance Optimization, reliability engineering, Scalability, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Build and scale backend infrastructure for Notion’s database platform, focusing on performance, reliability, distributed systems, and high-concurrency workloads. The role requires strong backend fundamentals and practical JavaScript or TypeScript experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Scale the infrastructure behind Notion’s database block, including views, boards, charts, forms, and workflows.
- Improve database load performance, reliability, scalability, and concurrency handling.
- Build backend architecture and platform capabilities for other Notion teams.
- Address challenges involving microservices, high-volume writes from AI agents, and data-layer flexibility.
- Use AI to learn unfamiliar systems, explore debugging paths, generate tests, summarize traces or logs, and evaluate implementation plans.
- Improve database performance and reliability at P95 scale.
- Raise the quality of Collections infrastructure through architecture, observability, documentation, and clearer system boundaries.
- Partner with senior engineers and product-facing teams to evolve Collections as a platform.

## Requirements
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
- Interest in performance, reliability, scalability, and systems operating under real customer load.
- Curiosity about distributed systems, microservices, and data-layer trade-offs.
- Practical comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript, or the ability to ramp up quickly.
- Strong technical problem-solving, iteration, and bottleneck analysis skills.
- Self-guided learning ability and comfort working through ambiguity.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Estimated base salary for roles based in San Francisco or New York City: **$150,000–$200,000 per year**.

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