Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Build and scale database infrastructure that enables customers to use Postgres without DBA expertise. Responsibilities include taking a product from alpha to general availability, optimizing queries and data loading, managing schema changes and concurrency, automating database provisioning and fleet operations, improving observability, and shaping architecture through customer collaboration. The role requires hands-on backend engineering, technical leadership, product judgment, and willingness to work across the stack.

Lead the Web Infrastructure team responsible for Notion’s web client architecture, performance, reliability, and shared design systems. Build and manage engineering teams and managers, recruit and develop engineers, facilitate planning and prioritization, maintain high engineering quality, and drive consistent delivery. Partner across the organization to shape technical practices, hiring, onboarding, and management processes while balancing product, technology, and people priorities.

Build and evolve Notion’s Developer Platform, including APIs, MCP tools, integration infrastructure, and internal platform capabilities. Partner with product, design, data science, and research teams to define strategy and deliver reliable, scalable features. Own production software end to end, improve platform performance and robustness, and drive high-leverage technical investments. Help developers and customers create integrations, automations, and connected workflows.

Build and scale backend infrastructure for Notions database (Collections) to improve P95 performance, reliability, and concurrency. Work on distributed systems, microservices, high-volume writes, observability, and platform features; partner with product and senior engineers and use AI tools to accelerate debugging and testing.

Lead a platform engineering team that builds and operates Notion's search and context infrastructure (lexical and semantic retrieval, indexing, streaming/batch pipelines, and agent context primitives). Set roadmap balancing foundational investments (latency, cost, reliability, security, enterprise readiness) and fast iteration, own SLOs/observability/on-call practices, partner with product and AI teams, hire and grow engineers, and drive platform reliability and scalability at scale.

Design and implement technical solutions for customer engagements, focusing on large-scale enterprise deployments while collaborating with various teams.

Lead the rollout and ongoing ownership of Go as a first-class backend platform at production scale. Build reliable, scalable service patterns, developer tooling, golden paths, and guardrails; improve CI, deployments, observability, and developer workflows; and deliver a Go platform v1 that enables production teams to operate services at scale within 90 days.

Join Notion as an early-career software engineer to plan, build, and ship product features, improve performance and reliability, run experiments to drive engagement, and contribute to internal tools and platform improvements while collaborating with design, product, and data teams.

The role involves designing and shipping new database features, collaborating on technical solutions, and improving code quality in a team environment.

Build product features end-to-end, improve performance and reliability, and create internal tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, work on web UI and backend components, and iterate based on user impact and metrics.