Software Engineer, Data Product Platform

Apply; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion in San Francisco is looking for an individual to develop systems and infrastructure for data-powered products. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver impactful solutions.

This role involves monitoring systems in production and optimizing their performance. Ideal candidates are curious, data-driven, and team-oriented, with a focus on delivering business value in a collaborative environment.

Competitive compensation and benefits are provided for this position.

Qualifications

• You enjoy understanding systems end-to-end and improving them with a hands-on approach.
• You use metrics and experiments to diagnose issues and prioritize impactful fixes.
• You build intuitive interfaces and tools to help other engineers move faster.
• You care about the business impact and prioritize projects accordingly.
• You enjoy collaborating and helping others grow.

Responsibilities

• You will own the development of systems that enable data-powered use cases.
• You will work cross-functionally with engineers and product teams.
• You will be responsible for optimizing performance of production systems.

Skills

Curiosity in working across the stack

Data-driven approach to building & improving systems

A knack for ergonomic developer & agentic tooling

Pragmatic and business-oriented

Team player

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. 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 busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

About The Role

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion.

The Data Product Platform team is responsible for designing, implementing, scaling and operating systems, tools and frameworks to build event‑based or data‑powered product experiences. You’ll join a team of talented engineers in our mission to build the best‑in‑class foundational platforms that are key to the company’s business and product. Notion’s platforms and infrastructure are vital to enabling our product features like search, automations, user notifications, workspace analytics and Notion AI.

What You’ll Achieve

• You’ll own and play a pivotal role in the development of systems, tools, and infrastructure that enable data and data‑system‑powered product use cases.
• You’ll work cross‑functionally with engineers and partners from Product, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI teams to deliver short‑ and long‑term impact.
• You’ll work on all levels of the stack, including infrastructure, libraries and product code, as needed to successfully build and deliver internal platforms that provide high leverage to multiple product teams.
• You’ll be responsible for monitoring and operating systems in production; understand systems deeply, optimize performance and evolve critical production systems with minimal user disruption.

Skills You’ll Need to Bring

• Curiosity in working across the stack: You enjoy understanding systems end‑to‑end—from product surfaces to infrastructure and data flows—and improving them with a hands‑on, learn‑by‑doing mindset.
• Data‑driven approach to building & improving systems: You use metrics, traces, logs, and experiments to diagnose issues, validate hypotheses, and prioritize the fixes that deliver the most impact.
• A knack for ergonomic developer & agentic tooling: You build interfaces that are intuitive and hard to misuse—thoughtful APIs, clear docs, and extensible patterns that help other engineers move faster.
• Pragmatic and business‑oriented: You care about the business impact of what you’re building, and you prioritize projects accordingly. You’re not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• Team player: You understand work is better together. You enjoy collaborating cross‑functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.

Nice to Haves

• You’ve had past experience working full‑stack in the TypeScript and Node.js ecosystem.
• You have worked on data or infrastructure‑focused engineering teams, particularly ones that own a wide swath of software platforms (hosted or built in‑house). You’ve experienced the challenges of scaling and re‑architecting event‑based platforms and infrastructure through orders of magnitude of growth and scaling data volume.

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we 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.

Compensation

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $196,000 - $261,000 per year.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and provide reasonable accommodations during the application process.

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. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law and provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.