Software Engineer, Collections Infra
NotionProductivity Software company
San Francisco, United States$150,000 - $200,000Mid
Sequoia Capital
Coatue Management
Index Ventures
First Round Capital
Accel
Base10 Partners
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Software Engineer to scale Notion's database block infrastructure.
- •As a Software Engineer on Collections Infra, you’ll help scale the infrastructure behind Notion’s database block.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities Improve database load performance, microservices, and high-volume writes.
- •Build backend architecture for scalability and reliability.
- •Contribute to making databases faster and more reliable at P95 scale.
- •Raise the quality bar for Collections infrastructure through better architecture and observability.
- •Partner with senior engineers and product-facing teams to evolve Collections as a platform.
- •Requirements Strong backend engineering fundamentals, with interest in performance, reliability, and scalability.
- •Curiosity about distributed systems, microservices, and data-layer trade-offs.
- •Practical comfort with JavaScript or TypeScript, or the ability to ramp quickly.
- •Grit and truth-seeking in technical problem solving.
- •A self-guided learning style.
Required skills
TypeScriptNode.jsMicroservicesJavaScript
Nice-to-have skills
gRPCWebSocketsREST API
Domain expertise
productivitydeveloper-tools
Tech stack
JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsMicroservicesREST APIgRPCWebSocketsNotion