Engineering Manager, Web Infrastructure

Triwill Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 255,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive cash compensation

Benefits package

On-site collaboration

Job summary

Notion is seeking an Engineering Manager for Web Infrastructure in San Francisco. You will lead a team responsible for core client architecture, performance, and shared systems, guiding strategy and coaching senior engineers and managers.

You’ll partner across the company to improve speed, reliability, and developer experience. We value diverse, direct communication and rigor in tackling tough technical tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading senior engineering teams and managers.
• Proven ability to scale engineering organizations.
• Commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams.
• Ability to balance product, technology and people concerns.
• Strong communication and decision-making under uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a diverse, inclusive engineering team focused on core architecture.
• Recruit, coach and develop engineers; provide frequent feedback and growth planning.
• Lead planning, prioritization, and staffing to deliver value consistently.
• Maintain high-quality bar for all team outputs and outcomes.
• Own execution cadence to ship reliable, scalable features.
• Shape engineering practices, onboarding, and organizational planning strategy.

Skills

Senior engineering teams

Scaling teams

Diversity and inclusion

Collaborative leadership

Product-technical balance

Rigorous problem solving

Ambiguity management

Empathetic communication

Job description

Description: WHO WE ARE

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Web Infrastructure team builds the foundations behind Notion’s web clients, including client architecture, performance, reliability, and shared design systems.

As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the team through the evolution from Notion Clients. You’ll set strategy, develop senior engineers and managers, and partner across Notion to make the product faster, more reliable, and easier to build.

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.

WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE

• You’ll build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of engineers and managers working on core parts of Notion's architecture. You'll create a healthy environment in your team that embodies Notion's values.
• You’ll recruit, coach, and develop engineers. You'll ensure engineers are regularly receiving feedback and making progress on personal and professional goals.
• You’ll facilitate planning—the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work—for your team.
• You’ll be responsible for maintaining a high-quality bar for everything your team ships.
• You’ll own execution in your team to develop a steady cadence of delivering value to your users.
• You’ll work with others to shape how Notion's engineering organization works. You'll help develop our technical practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process, and more.

SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING

• You have managed senior engineering teams and managers, and have experience in scaling teams.
• You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive teams.
• You create team environments that are at once collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challenging—ones where engineers do their best work.
• You have a sufficiently deep background in product and technology that you can ask the right questions of your team, balance product, tech, and people concerns, and make hard tradeoffs.
• You think rigorously. You're prepared to tackle the toughest technical problems, understand trade-offs, and enable teams to make decisions and progress.
• You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and change, especially around organizational structure and the boundaries of your role. You enjoy jumping into whatever areas need attention and learning as-you-go.
• You value empathetic and direct communication, particularly when giving and receiving feedback.

NICE TO HAVES

• You have managed engineering teams at startups before, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.
• You have experience rolling out engineering and management practices and processes—e.g., code review, performance reviews, and levels and ladders—where they didn't exist before.
• You've managed teams that are across multiple offices.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.

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 SanFrancisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $255,000-$300,000 per year.

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A NOTE ON AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & ACCOMMODATIONS

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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.