Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security

Millions of people use Notion every day, and we’re growing quickly. The Infrastructure Security team’s mission is to build a secure-by-default foundation across Notion’s technical stacks—architecting systems that make the secure path the easy path. As an IC4 on this team, you’ll own meaningful infrastructure security problems end-to-end: from identifying risk, to designing pragmatic controls, to shipping secure defaults that scale across engineering.

Responsibilities

Proactively enhance the security posture of our AWS accounts and cloud infrastructure; Create secure frameworks for secrets management and authentication/authorization; Design and deploy robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions; Provide guidance and education on security and privacy best practices to cross-functional partners; Participate in (and help drive) mitigation strategies during security-related incident response

Requirements

Security architecture and expertise: you’ve built and maintained systems to secure cloud architectures, ranging from secrets management to Identity and Access Management solutions; Backend/infrastructure development: you’ve written and shipped production-grade code, and can contribute to the codebase and architecture to raise the bar on secure systems design; Working in production: you can debug systems in production and continuously improve components with minimal disruption; Pragmatic, risk-based prioritization: you model threats, balance trade-offs, and focus security investments where they drive the most business impact; Empathetic communication: you communicate nuanced ideas clearly in writing and in real time; in disagreements, you engage thoughtfully and look for the right compromise

Nice to have

AWS security best practices, zero trust architectures, and/or deep IAM expertise; Data security or privacy engineering experience; Experience applying AI tooling to defensive security workflows; Participation in security communities (local or regional groups, conferences)

Benefits

Highly competitive cash compensation; equity; benefits