• Open mindset: You are receptive to new ideas, concepts, and practices, with a strong interest in continuous learning and development
• This involves being open to constructive feedback, being adaptable to changes in the work environment, and persistently seeking growth and development opportunities
• Startup mentality: You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup
• You are self-motivated to add value and bias towards action
• You understand the importance of setting the engineering quality bar for the long term success of our business, but are able to make difficult prioritizations
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly
• You don't just go after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
• To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs
• You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go

Desirable

• You'll contribute to scaling Notion as a top-tier service for our millions of users and teams who depend on us daily
• You'll have the opportunity to build a brand new cell-based architecture in collaboration with senior architects and engineers on the team
• You'll have the opportunity to develop your expertise in one or more domains within Infrastructure, which includes Services, Storage, Cache, Queue, Realtime Collaboration, Control Plane, among others
• You'll be responsible for debugging systems in production, appreciating the skill and challenge of replacing production components with minimal user disruption. You're able to be on an on-call rotation
• You'll have the opportunity to scale production software to support rapid growth, monitoring production systems, and managing resource constraints