• 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
• Technical background: You've experienced the challenges of scaling and re-architecting infrastructure through orders of magnitude of growth; You have a sufficiently deep background in infrastructure and technology that you can ask the right questions of your team, balance technology and people concerns, and make hard tradeoffs
• Management experience: You have lead or managed infrastructure-focused engineering teams, particularly ones that own a wide swath of hosted infrastructure (like AWS) and work closely with product teams; You have managed senior engineering teams and have experience in scaling teams

Desirable

• The Serving Infra Team's mission is to provide reliable and high-performance backend services to millions of Notion users
• Our aim is to develop a scalable architecture that can manage exponential user growth and a wide array of features across various regions
• Additionally, we create and maintain common services throughout the company and support each product team in managing their unique services
• You'll contribute to scaling Notion as a top-tier service for our millions of users and teams who depend on us daily
• We’re growing fast with more than 20 million users worldwide
• You will have the opportunity to build and grow a diverse and inclusive team of engineers working on critical Notion’s architecture and infrastructure
• You'll create a healthy environment in your team that embodies Notion's values
• You'll ensure engineers are regularly receiving feedback and that they are making rapid progress on personal and professional goals
• You'll facilitate planning—the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work—for your team
• You understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
• You'll work with others to shape how Notion's engineering organization operates
• You'll help develop our technical practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process, and more
• You'll be responsible for maintaining a high quality bar for everything your team supports