Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Hyderabad Infra team builds and maintains Notion's internal async task runner and configuration management platform. The async task runner plays a critical role in ensuring our millions of users have a fast, reliable, and secure experience. The configuration management platform enables safe, explicit configuration management for Notion's product and infrastructure engineers.

Responsibilities

contribute to evolution and maintenance of async task runner to meet needs of over 100 million global users; help ensure systems remain reliable, efficient, and scalable; evaluate and integrate new technologies; empower engineering team to build features confidently; develop skills and confidence to debug live production systems with minimal disruption; participate in on-call rotation, responding to incidents to uphold service reliability; partner with product engineers and other infra teams to ensure platforms align with evolving business needs and product goals

Requirements

software developer with at least 4 years of experience and ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment; systems thinker: understand distributed systems and design solutions that account for tradeoffs like consistency, latency, and scalability; pragmatic problem-solver: prioritize business impact and understand balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability; ownership and initiative: thrive in fast-moving, unstructured environment and comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems; customer empathy: excel at collaborating across teams, offering guidance and solutions to unblock engineers; willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results