Senior Backend Engineer — Postgres & AI Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 299,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is hiring for a backend‑leaning leadership role based in San Francisco, with in‑office days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. You will design and steer the architecture for a scalable database platform that powers knowledge work through Postgres, Go, TS/Node.js, and React, while guiding a team of engineers and partnering with early customers to shape product direction.

You’ll work across the stack to optimize performance, provide reliable data workflows, and craft practical, scalable

Qualifications

• Production relational database experience including Postgres or MySQL.
• 10+ years of engineering leadership and cross-team delivery experience.
• Strong backend fundamentals and concurrent systems thinking.

Responsibilities

• Take a product from alpha to GA with early customers to shape architectural decisions.
• Build scalable database provisioning and management systems.
• Improve query performance, indexing, and data loading as usage grows.
• Collaborate across stack to deliver reliable, fast experiences for users.

Skills

Relational databases

Engineering leadership

Backend engineering

Performance optimization

Product judgment

Cross-stack work

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Postgres

Go

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Job description

Notion is hiring for a backend‑leaning leadership role based in San Francisco, with in‑office days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. You will design and steer the architecture for a scalable database platform that powers knowledge work through Postgres, Go, TS/Node.js, and React, while guiding a team of engineers and partnering with early customers to shape product direction.

You’ll work across the stack to optimize performance, provide reliable data workflows, and craft practical, scalable