Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Role Overview: Notion is looking for an early-career software developer to join the Hyderabad Infra team in building and maintaining the internal async task runner and configuration management platform. As part of this team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a fast, reliable, and secure experience for millions of users. Your work will involve contributing to the evolution of the async task runner, integrating new technologies, and collaborating with product engineers to align platforms with evolving business needs. Key Responsibilities: - Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the async task runner to support over 100 million global users and facilitate the rapid growth of the product and business. - Work with senior team members to ensure systems remain reliable, efficient, and scalable by evaluating and integrating new technologies. - Empower the engineering team to build features confidently while enhancing your skills in distributed systems and infrastructure. - Develop the ability to debug live production systems with minimal disruption, participate in an on-call rotation, and respond to incidents to uphold service reliability. - Collaborate with product engineers and other infra teams to ensure platforms align with evolving business needs and product goals. Qualifications Required: - At least 1 year of experience as a software developer in a fast-paced environment. - Understanding of distributed systems and the ability to design solutions considering tradeoffs like consistency, latency, and scalability. - Prioritization of business impact and an understanding of the balance between craft, speed, and long-term maintainability. - Ownership and initiative to take charge of ambiguous problems, act with a bias toward action, and focus on results. - Strong customer empathy, collaborating across teams to unblock engineers and support them in building reliable systems with a focus on addressing user needs. Note: Notion values diversity and encourages individuals with a passion for software development and alignment with company values to apply, even if their experience does not align perfectly with every requirement listed in the job description.,