Senior Backend Architect — Postgres & Data Platform

Notion; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 299,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is hiring for a backend‑leaning role in San Francisco, focusing on database infrastructure built with Postgres, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, and React. You will shape architecture, partner with customers, and scale as adoption grows, delivering reliable, scalable data platforms for knowledge workers.

You will lead technical direction across the stack, mentor teammates, and relentlessly improve performance and correctness while making powerful capabilities approachable for users.

Qualifications

• Experience with production relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) including schemas and indexes.
• 10+ years building and operating production software with technical leadership.
• Strong backend fundamentals: concurrency, retries, consistency.
• Ability to optimize query plans, traces, profiles for performance.
• Fluency with AI-assisted engineering to accelerate exploration and testing.

Responsibilities

• Take a new product from alpha to general availability with customer feedback.
• Improve real customer workloads, query execution, and data loading as datasets grow.
• Build systems you can trust: schema changes, concurrent writes, permissions, recovery.

Skills

Relational DB experience

Engineering leadership

Backend fundamentals

Performance optimization

Product judgment

Cross-stack work

AI fluency

Tools

Postgres

Go

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Job description

Notion is hiring for a backend‑leaning role in San Francisco, focusing on database infrastructure built with Postgres, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, and React. You will shape architecture, partner with customers, and scale as adoption grows, delivering reliable, scalable data platforms for knowledge workers.

You will lead technical direction across the stack, mentor teammates, and relentlessly improve performance and correctness while making powerful capabilities approachable for users.