Notion
About this role
Notion is a workspace product used by millions of individuals and companies, and its Hyderabad infrastructure team owns two internal platforms: the async task runner that keeps the product fast and reliable for over 100 million users, and the configuration management platform other Notion engineers build against. This is real distributed systems work with an explicit growth framing. The posting says you would work with guidance from senior team members and develop the confidence to debug live production systems, replace components and manage failovers, which is a more honest description of a four year role than most. There is an on call rotation. Note the location carefully: Notion's job board flags this as remote, but the posting itself is tagged onsite.
Who this is for
⚠️ Location warning, and please read this before applying: Notion's job board marks this posting as remote, but the posting body carries an onsite tag. Notion states elsewhere that its Hyderabad roles work from the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have published this as Hyderabad, not remote, because the posting body is the more specific statement. Confirm with the recruiter before you plan around remote work.
What the posting asks for:
- At least 4 years of experience as a software developer, with the ability to perform well in a fast paced environment.
- Systems thinking: understanding distributed systems and designing solutions that account for tradeoffs between consistency, latency and scalability.
- Pragmatic problem solving, prioritising business impact and balancing craft, speed and long term maintainability. The posting says it wants someone opinionated but not ideological who picks up new technologies as they go.
- Ownership and initiative.
Day to day: contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the async task runner serving over 100 million global users; keeping systems reliable, efficient and scalable with guidance from senior team members; evaluating and integrating new technologies; debugging live production systems with minimal disruption, including replacing components and managing failovers; participating in an on call rotation and responding to incidents; and partnering with product engineers and other infrastructure teams.
What the team owns: Notion's internal async task runner, which is critical to product speed, reliability and security, and the configuration management platform used by Notion's product and infrastructure engineers.
Honest fit guidance: the posting's language about working with guidance from senior team members and growing your skills in distributed systems suggests this is pitched at the lower end of mid level, which is unusual and welcome. If you have four years of backend experience and want to move into infrastructure, this is a reasonable stretch. The on call expectation is stated up front, so factor it in.
What the posting asks for:
- At least 4 years of experience as a software developer, with the ability to perform well in a fast paced environment.
- Systems thinking: understanding distributed systems and designing solutions that account for tradeoffs between consistency, latency and scalability.
- Pragmatic problem solving, prioritising business impact and balancing craft, speed and long term maintainability. The posting says it wants someone opinionated but not ideological who picks up new technologies as they go.
- Ownership and initiative.
Day to day: contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the async task runner serving over 100 million global users; keeping systems reliable, efficient and scalable with guidance from senior team members; evaluating and integrating new technologies; debugging live production systems with minimal disruption, including replacing components and managing failovers; participating in an on call rotation and responding to incidents; and partnering with product engineers and other infrastructure teams.
What the team owns: Notion's internal async task runner, which is critical to product speed, reliability and security, and the configuration management platform used by Notion's product and infrastructure engineers.
Honest fit guidance: the posting's language about working with guidance from senior team members and growing your skills in distributed systems suggests this is pitched at the lower end of mid level, which is unusual and welcome. If you have four years of backend experience and want to move into infrastructure, this is a reasonable stretch. The on call expectation is stated up front, so factor it in.
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