Notion · 10 hours ago
Software Engineer, Datastore
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$130K/yr - $240K/yrNotion helps individuals and teams streamline their work with a unified platform, and they are seeking a Software Engineer for their Datastore team. This role involves enhancing the datastore infrastructure to support over 100 million users by ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency while collaborating with product engineers to meet evolving business needs.
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Responsibilities
You will drive the evolution of our datastore infrastructure to meet the needs of over 100 million global users and support the rapid growth of our product and business. This includes ensuring our systems are reliable, efficient, and scalable, while evaluating and integrating new technologies to keep us ahead of emerging challenges. Your work will empower our engineers to build features with confidence, backed by a strong datastore foundation
You will design and deliver a Datastore Platform that simplifies how teams manage and interact with data at scale. From flexible schema management to migrating hundreds of billions of records, you’ll develop tools and frameworks that make it easier for engineers to innovate while maintaining safety, efficiency, and performance
You will develop the skills and confidence to debug live production systems with minimal disruption, whether replacing components or managing failovers. You will participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability and quickly restore normal operations
You will partner with product engineers and other infra teams to ensure our datastore infrastructure aligns with evolving business needs and product goals
Qualification
Required
Familiarity with Datastore Systems: You have experience with large scale relational databases, distributed caches, and NoSQL systems. You understand how to design, scale, and optimize them to support growing business needs. Our team utilizes cloud-based datastore solutions like AWS RDS, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache to power our infrastructure
Systems thinker: You understand distributed systems and can design solutions that account for tradeoffs like consistency, latency, and scalability
Pragmatic problem-solver: You prioritize business impact and understand the balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability. You're opinionated but not ideological, and you learn new technologies as you go
Ownership and initiative: You thrive in a fast-moving, unstructured environment and are comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems. You act with a bias toward action and focus on results
Customer Empathy: You excel at collaborating across teams, offering guidance and solutions to unblock engineers and support them in building reliable systems. With empathy at the core of your approach, you focus on addressing the needs of those who depend on datastore infrastructure
Preferred
Experience with change data capture tools like Debezium for real-time data replication and migrations
Experience working closely with application developers, understanding their workflows, and building datastore solutions that address their challenges, such as schema changes, performance, and data access patterns
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
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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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