Software Engineer, Collections Infra

Notion Labs, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, California

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Software Engineer on Collections Infra, you’ll help scale the infrastructure behind Notion’s database block.
• Databases power views, boards, charts, forms, and the workflows customers use to run their companies; as Notion grows into larger enterprise deployments and AI-native work, those systems need to become faster, more reliable, and ready for much higher concurrency.
• This team sits between infrastructure and product, building backend architecture that improves the customer experience while becoming a platform other Notion teams can build on.
• You’ll work on problems like database load performance, microservices, high-volume writes from agents, and the flexibility that makes Notion databases powerful and hard to scale.
• This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City.
• 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 those days.
• By your 90th day, you’ll understand how Collections Infra supports Notion’s database block, ship improvements to database performance or reliability, and build context on the scale challenges behind larger enterprise workspaces and AI-driven write volume.
• You’ll use AI as a real engineering collaborator: to learn unfamiliar systems faster, explore debugging paths, generate tests, summarize traces or logs, and pressure-test implementation plans before shipping.
• You’ll contribute to the team’s work to make databases faster and more reliable at P95 scale, especially as customers build larger centralized databases with more concurrent usage.
• By the end of your first year, you’ll have helped raise the quality bar for Collections infrastructure through better architecture, observability, documentation, or system boundaries that make future work easier to build on.
• You’ll partner with senior engineers and product-facing teams to evolve Collections as a platform, balancing internal developer needs with the external customer experience of databases.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, with interest in performance, reliability, scalability, and systems that need to hold up under real customer load.
• Curiosity about distributed systems, microservices, and data-layer trade-offs; experience in these areas is helpful, but we care most about your ability to learn quickly and reason from first principles.
• Practical comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript, or the ability to ramp quickly in a codebase where those tools matter.
• Grit and truth-seeking in technical problem solving: you can iterate when the first approach does not move P50/P95 performance, and you’re motivated by finding the real bottleneck.
• A self-guided learning style: you use docs, code, teammates, and AI to build context, ask better questions, and turn ambiguity into steady progress.

🏖️ Benefits

• Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
• The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below.
• For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 per year.
• Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.
• Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
• Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
• Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

TypeScript

Onsite

$150k-200k

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About Notion Labs, Inc.

Notion Labs, Inc. develops a unified workspace platform that combines documents, databases, kanban boards, calendars, and wikis. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers collaborative tools for teams and individuals to plan, write, organize, and share knowledge. The software integrates with third-party services and supports real-time editing, templates, and permissions management. Founded in 2013, it serves global users across education, technology, and enterprise sectors, aiming to replace fragmented productivity apps with a single, modular environment.

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