Notion · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Search Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$180K/yr - $280K/yrNotion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their search infrastructure. The role involves ensuring comprehensive and instantaneous indexing systems and search clusters for user content, contributing to both search and AI functionality.
AppsCollaborationProduct ManagementReal TimeSoftware
Responsibilities
You’ll denormalize, preprocess, and index any and every type of Notion comment that our users might find useful
You’ll find opportunities up and down the stack to maintain Notion’s stunningly quick indexing latency
You’ll drive us towards correctness and consistency, ensuring that every change in the application is reflected in our search indices
You’ll scale our search infrastructure up and out, owning both the hardware and the configurations of our indices
You’ll drive us to a best-in-class position when it comes to user privacy, security, and Enterprise-level features
You’ll own our feature-store infrastructure, making it easy for multiple teams to make high-value information quickly and cheaply available
You’ll work with product engineers across the organization, consulting on data modeling and ingesting new types of content
Qualification
Required
You have experience in backend engineering
You have experience in data infrastructure
You have experience in search infrastructure
You have experience in queueing systems
You have experience in at-least-once message delivery
You have experience in multi-stage data pipelines
You have experience in distributed systems
You have a track record for shipping scalable and reliable user-facing products
You thrive when collaborating cross-functionally — especially with product, design, infrastructure or data teams
You have a computer science background or equivalent technical experience
Preferred
You have experience building full-text search using, e.g: Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr
You have experience with designing, building and maintaining complex distributed systems
You have experience with large scale data processing technologies, e.g: Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, YARN/Hadoop
You have tuned the throughput of a complex asynchronous system
You have worked at a fast-growing start-up, a SaaS company, or are eager to contribute in such an environment (being a current Notion user would be great!)
You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work
Benefits
Highly competitive cash compensation
Equity
Benefits
Company
Notion
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Founded in 2016
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$343.2MKey Investors
Index VenturesFirst Round Capital
2025-12-15Secondary Market
2021-10-08Series C· $275M
2020-04-02Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
Akshay Kothari
COO
Ha Nguyen
Global Head of Demand Generation
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