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Software Engineer, Data Platform (Foundations Lead)

San Francisco, California💼 Full-time💰 $281,000–$281,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the Data Foundations team to build and operate batch and streaming infrastructure for Notion's product features, analytics, search, and AI experiences.

Role type

Senior IC technical leader / Engineering Manager

Builds

Data lake, streaming, distributed-compute, governance, and reliability systems

Domain

Data Infrastructure / Big Data

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale batch and streaming system design, multi-quarter strategy setting, team building and talent development, hands-on engineering judgment, platform-product thinking, organizational influence

Preferred skills

Experience with S3/Iceberg lakehouse, Kafka/Debezium, Spark, distributed compute optimization

Technologies

S3, Iceberg, Kafka, Debezium, Spark, EMR, Athena

Responsibilities

Set multi-quarter strategy for data platform evolution, build and develop a high-performing engineering team, lead complex initiatives from idea to operation, guide the team toward enterprise-ready data governance, raise reliability and cost efficiency of core systems, scale engineering expertise through coaching and tooling

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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