Go Platform Engineer: Scale Backends & DX

Intermedia Lab; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 299,000 - 352,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking a Go-focused Platform Engineer to lead the rollout of Go support at production scale. You will design durable, scalable patterns and guardrails for running Go services, while aligning with the Developer Experience team on AI-assisted workflows and performance tooling.

This role can be based in San Francisco or New York City, with in-person Anchor Days on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You will ship a concrete Go platform v1 within 90 days to unblock multiple production teams

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Deep Go expertise, including experience operating production Go services at scale.
• Track record of defining, driving, and owning a platform that other teams adopt: libraries, golden paths, migration playbooks, and guardrails that make systems easier to run.
• Strong systems judgment: you can make trade-offs explicit (speed vs safety, abstraction vs flexibility) and bring teams along without turning it into a committee.
• Curiosity and breadth to jump onto the highest-leverage developer experience problems as needed.
• A drive to make developers’ lives better: you have a strong interest in keeping engineers in their flow state, and especially in thinking outside of the box to find ways to pave a better golden path for engineers to follow.
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact, not just going after cool stuff, and prioritize projects accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Build out Notion’s next fully supported language (alongside TypeScript), with a clear operating model teams trust.
• Own the success of Go as a platform at Notion, while helping the Developer Experience team tackle whatever engineering productivity bottlenecks matter most.
• Go is the primary focus today, but there is opportunity to shape areas such as AI-assisted development, remote agent environments, CI performance, deployments, and developer workflows.
• Establish safe, reliable frameworks and patterns for running Go services at scale (deployment, observability, reliability, and generally “how we do production”).
• Enable service architecture, maintenance, and ownership through easy, AI-enabled tooling that reduces toil and raises quality.
• By your 90th day, you’ll have shipped a concrete “Go platform v1” that unblocks at least two production teams operating services at real world scale.

Skills

Go programming

Platform ownership

Systems thinking

AI tooling curiosity

Backend development

Communication

Adaptability

Go performance

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Notion is seeking a Go-focused Platform Engineer to lead the rollout of Go support at production scale. You will design durable, scalable patterns and guardrails for running Go services, while aligning with the Developer Experience team on AI-assisted workflows and performance tooling.

This role can be based in San Francisco or New York City, with in-person Anchor Days on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. You will ship a concrete Go platform v1 within 90 days to unblock multiple production teams