Software Engineer, Notion

Trust

$130-250k

Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Mid and Senior level
New York

3+ days a week in office

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

Job no longer available

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

$130-250k

Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Mid and Senior level
New York

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To shape both the future of work, and the future of productivity tools.

Role

Who you are

  • Trust expertise: You bring multiple years of software engineering experience in the areas of trust, safety, and abuse prevention
  • 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

  • Experience in scaling a hyper-growth startup
  • Experience with mitigating scraper activity or more subtle forms of abuse / terms of service violation
  • You can lead a small team and multi-month project end to end with minimal management and cross-functional support
  • You've managed, maintained, and monitored systems using Amazon Web Services, Datadog, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch

What the job involves

  • The Trust team is a new engineering team tasked with designing systems to protect Notion’s community
  • As a founding engineer on the team, you'll partner with our Trust & Safety operations team to anticipate ever-evolving attack vectors and build the technical foundation of a trusted user experience to guide Notion through the next few years of growth
  • Build vision and roadmaps for this team
  • Protect Notion’s community from account takeovers, phishing, objectionable content, spam and other kinds of fraud and abuse
  • Articulate Notion’s overall approach and philosophy on privacy
  • Partner closely with Trust and Safety ops to manage incidents, deep dive on new attack vectors, and improve ops tooling and automation
  • Partner with the security engineering team to harden access to Notion’s user accounts, such as through 2 factor authentication and systems for detecting fraudulent activity
  • Built data pipeline, models, and systems to detect anomalies and mitigate potential fraud and abuse

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.

The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2 billion valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.

The company has made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

183% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$275m

LATE VC

Apr 2020

$50m

LATE VC

Total funding: $335m

Company benefits

  • Dog-friendly office
  • 401k matching
  • Parental leaave
  • Free lunches
  • Equipment stipend
  • Monthly commuter credits
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Put Users First
  • Quality With Speed
  • Dedication Is Contagious
  • Feedback Is A Gift
  • Run The Front Page Test

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.

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