Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

WHO WE ARE Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. ABOUT THE ROLE Notion's Data Engineering Infrastructure team keeps the platform under our data pipelines healthy, managing Snowflake, Airflow, and a range of AWS services (EMR, S3, Athena, and more). You'll have the opportunity to make significant improvements in the infrastructure, reliability, observability, and CI/CD tooling that makes those pipelines possible. You'll be the first member of the team based in India, joining a four-person team led from the US. This is a high-autonomy role, you'll ramp quickly through high-impact quick wins, then own progressively larger infrastructure projects. WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE - Infrastructure as Code — Manage and improve Terraform stacks for AWS and Snowflake resources, ensuring services are properly tracked, modularized, and secured. - CI/CD — Harden pipelines with alerting on test failures, PR validation with plan previews and impact analysis, and deployment guardrails. - Compute provisioning — Set up and maintain EMR clusters (and EKS in the future), track health, and scale based on workload needs. - Observability — Configure monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to keep the platform healthy and issues visible. - Operational coverage — Triage DAG failures, infrastructure alerts, and platform incidents during India hours, providing faster response times for the team. SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING - 7+ years as a software or infrastructure engineer with strong DevOps experience. - Experience in data platform or infrastructure domains. - Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) — you've managed large stacks and know how to modularize, optimize, and debug complex issues. - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline design, caching, artifact management, and deployment strategies. - Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) across services like EMR, S3, Athena, and EKS. - Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language. - Self-starter who can independently identify opportunities and execute with minimal direction. - You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results. NICE TO HAVES - Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Honeycomb) - Familiarity with dbt CI/CD patterns, testing, and deployment - Experience with Apache Spark and/or EMR-based data processing - Exposure to Snowflake administration or Snowflake Terraform management - Experience working across time zones at a fast-growing SaaS company By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy https://notion.notion.site/Notion-Global-Recruiting-Privacy-Policy-fc3eb4e829354a26a2bb6fd5e289b550. https://dev.notion.so/a3ce416456924276a59de91bca740028?pvs=21 #LI-Onsite A NOTE ON AI You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & ACCOMMODATIONS We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.