Notion · 17 hours ago
Software Engineer, Permissions
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$210K/yr - $250K/yr
7+ years expNotion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work, providing a platform for teams to seamlessly connect docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email with built-in AI. The Permissions team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to scale permissions, user roles, and access management, ensuring intuitive collaboration for enterprise customers.
AppsCollaborationProduct ManagementReal TimeSoftware
Responsibilities
Identifying and executing against technical investments that ensure the long-term quality, reliability, and performance of these primitives
Building end-user facing functionality to meet complex product needs
Answering important and technically challenging questions like, “How do we represent teams of people in enterprise workspaces?” and “How can we give our users the most granular access controls?”
Defining team norms, operating principles, team culture, and much more
You'll design and scale granular permission models and access control systems that feel intuitive despite underlying complexity, enabling Notion users to collaborate with confidence
You’ll work with a team of engineers and cross-functional partners across product, design, data science, and user research to define a product strategy for representing organization structures—teams, groups, and hierarchies—within Notion workspaces, solving complex problems around access delegation and permission inheritance
You’ll contribute to the overall performance, reliability, and robustness of the Notion product, ensuring it scales elegantly across many dimensions
You’ll partner with engineering leaders to identify and execute against high leverage technical investment that ensure the long-term flexibility and sustainability of our core systems
Qualification
Required
7+ years of engineering experience, including several years building world-class product experiences alongside a team of engineers
Experience making key technical decisions, guiding a team through complex projects, and mentoring junior team members
Prioritize business impact and understand the balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability
Enjoy collaborating with both fellow engineers and cross-functional partners
Approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context
Communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time
Curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results
Preferred
Proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres
Experience driving teams toward shared goals and excited to navigate product ambiguity
Familiarity with computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others
Interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences
Benefits
Highly competitive cash compensation
Equity
Benefits
Company
Notion
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$343.2MKey Investors
Coatue,Sequoia CapitalIndex VenturesFirst Round Capital
2025-12-15Secondary Market
2021-10-08Series C· $275M
2020-04-02Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
Akshay Kothari
Co-Founder
Ha Nguyen
Global Head of Demand Generation
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