Developer Infrastructure Software Engineer, Notion

$145-250k

Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Notion
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

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

$145-250k

Elasticsearch
Redis
Postgres
Notion
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

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

  • Developer productivity expert: You bring multiple years of expertise in developer productivity, developer experience or DevOps engineering
  • You have deep understanding of modern development practices and tools, and experience designing, building, and evaluating those tools
  • Developer experience mindset: You think critically about how the tools you build will be used by the rest of the engineering team
  • Your work emphasizes simplicity, supportability, and ease-of-use, and you communicate clearly with other teams to get both structured and unstructured feedback on where we can improve
  • You have experience supporting developer experience for engineers working on a web client, not just server
  • Startup mentality: You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a fast-growing 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 without shying away from difficult prioritization decisions
  • 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 have a deep understanding of TypeScript and how to keep it running smoothly in a large codebase
  • You’ve untangled complex codebases with interwoven dependencies to improve developer productivity and tooling speed without compromising reliability
  • You have experience in scaling developer experience a hyper-growth startup
  • You can independently lead a small team and multi-month project end to end to accomplish team goals

What the job involves

  • The Developer Productivity team is responsible for architecting, implementing, and scaling our tools and frameworks that Notion developers use to build these products for our users
  • We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving engineering productivity challenges and have deep empathy for other developers
  • Take ownership of the overall development environment and toolchain, and drive novel projects across the company to deliver impact
  • Minimize time spent between code commit and production deploy, via better tooling, testing, framework, and automation, without sacrificing quality or reliability
  • Provide top-notch observability tools for Notion engineers to scale Notion reliably

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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