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About the Role

This role will be based in San Francisco and involves building systems that enable knowledge workers to leverage scalable databases without needing to be a DBA. You will be a hands-on technical leader, contributing to architectural direction and roadmap for a new product from alpha to general availability. You will collaborate with early customers to shape foundational technical and product decisions and work on scaling solutions as adoption grows. This is a backend-leaning role with responsibilities spanning the stack, including provisioning and managing Postgres instances, designing schema evolution, and optimizing query execution. You will also contribute to the product by improving table loading, user understanding of operations, and agent data interactions.

Responsibilities

Take a new product from alpha to general availability.
Work with early customers to understand needs, iterate on feedback, and shape product shipments.
Improve query execution, indexing, and client data loading to ensure performance as datasets grow.
Build reliable systems for schema changes, concurrent writes, permissions, and recovery.
Make database provisioning, migrations, and indexes user-friendly.
Automate database provisioning and fleet operations.
Strengthen observability and evolve architecture for scalability.
Build systems that let knowledge workers leverage databases without becoming DBAs.
Set architectural direction and roadmap for a new product.
Work directly with early customers to shape technical and product decisions.
Scale solutions as adoption and workloads grow.
Build systems for provisioning and managing customer Postgres instances.
Design how user-defined schemas evolve safely.
Make complex queries execute efficiently.
Improve how tables load.
Enhance user understanding of slow operations.
Ensure agents safely work with customer data.
Shape architecture and product by developing better abstractions, defaults, or rethinking user workflows.
Ship practical solutions and evolve them based on usage.

Requirements

Production relational database experience (e.g., Postgres or MySQL).
Experience making decisions about schemas and indexes.
Experience analyzing database performance.
Experience debugging issues involving transactions, locking, or concurrency.
Experience beyond accessing a database through an ORM.
10+ years of experience building and operating production software.
Track record of setting technical direction.
Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives from concept through delivery.
Ability to identify the most important problems to solve.
Ability to turn ambiguous goals into a technical strategy.
Ability to align engineers and partner teams around a practical plan.
Ability to stay hands-on while mentoring others.
Experience with design reviews, mentorship, and clear technical guidance.
Experience building services that remain correct under concurrency and failure.
Ability to reason about retries, partial failures, consistency, and trade-offs in reliable reads and writes.
Systematic approach to performance using query plans, traces, profiles, and experiments.
Willingness to investigate problems across storage, services, and client code.
Interest in understanding who will use the built product.
Ability to turn a customer's problem into a technical approach.
Ability to recognize when a better default or simpler workflow is more effective.
Comfort learning unfamiliar systems and working in client code.
Fluency with AI-assisted engineering, using AI to accelerate exploration, implementation, and testing.
Responsibility for understanding and validating AI-generated results.

Skills

Postgres
MySQL
Go
TypeScript
Node.js
React
Relational database management
Schema design
Index optimization
Database performance analysis
Transaction management
Concurrency control
Backend engineering
System design
Technical leadership
Cross-team collaboration
Problem-solving
Strategic planning
Mentorship
Performance tuning
Query optimization
Distributed systems
AI-assisted engineering

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Onsite (Anchor Days: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays)
Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of experience building and operating production software

Salary/Compensations

$299,000 – $334,000 per year

About the Company

Notion is a collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together, providing a unified platform for knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools.
Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies use Notion.
Notion employees (Notinos) are customer zero, focused on craft, building lasting products, and believing that great work is fundamentally human.
The company aims to set the standard for human collaboration in the AI era, enabling tasks from building business systems of record to automating busy work.
The team is building database infrastructure for knowledge workers, allowing them to connect data and build workflows within Notion using the power of Postgres and the approachability of familiar tools.
AI agents are expanding this opportunity by helping users build and operate systems they couldn't create independently.
The team's mission is to make hard database problems disappear from user workflows without compromising correctness, performance, or flexibility.

Equal Opportunity

Notion hires talented people from diverse backgrounds and encourages applications even if not all qualifications are met.
Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on legally protected characteristics.
Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable laws.
Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process.
Notion does not discriminate in hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
Notion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.