Backend Engineer, Collections Infra — Database Scaling

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive cash compensation

Job summary

Notion is seeking a Software Engineer for Collections Infra to scale the company’s database infrastructure, enabling faster, more reliable performance for larger enterprise deployments and higher AI-driven write volumes. The role sits between infrastructure and product, building backend architecture the rest of the company can leverage.

You’ll tackle database load, microservices, and high-volume writes while collaborating with senior engineers and product teams to evolve Collections as a

Qualifications

• Strong backend fundamentals with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Optimize database performance and reliability for high concurrency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to build scalable backend systems.
• Improve observability, architecture, and boundaries to support future work.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

JavaScript/TypeScript

Problem solving

Job description

Notion is seeking a Software Engineer for Collections Infra to scale the company’s database infrastructure, enabling faster, more reliable performance for larger enterprise deployments and higher AI-driven write volumes. The role sits between infrastructure and product, building backend architecture the rest of the company can leverage.

You’ll tackle database load, microservices, and high-volume writes while collaborating with senior engineers and product teams to evolve Collections as a