Data Engineer

Notion’s mission is to make toolmaking ubiquitous-from wikis and documents to notes, tasks, and databases. Strong product intuition and user focus have driven adoption across organizations of all sizes. Millions of users now rely on Notion’s building blocks to get work done.

As Notion scales, there’s a unique opportunity to build the data foundations that help our product and company reach their full potential. You’ll design and build reliable, trusted datasets that accelerate decision-making across product and business functions, directly impacting our roadmap and growth.

This role is based in our San Francisco Headquarters. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.

What You’ll Achieve:

• Define ETL processes and infrastructure to make data readily available across the company
• Build core datasets as single sources of truth for product and business teams (product, marketing, sales, finance, customer experience, data science, operations, IT, engineering)
• Partner with data scientists and stakeholders to understand their needs and design, build, and monitor pipelines that scale with our growing data
• Implement automated workflows that reduce operational costs, define SLAs for timely data delivery, and democratize data through self-serve dashboards, discovery tools, and AI-enabled exploration, Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $179,000 - $200,000 per year.

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• Self-starter who gathers high-impact needs from business partners, designs technical solutions, and communicates clearly about deliverables, timelines, and tradeoffs
• 5+ years of experience as a data engineer building core datasets and supporting business functions, with a passion for analytics, data modeling, and solving complex problems
• Strong understanding of scalable cloud data solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) across multiple data stores (Snowflake, Redshift, Hive, SQL/NoSQL, columnar formats) and methodologies (dimensional modeling, data marts, schemas)
• SQL expert, proficient with aggregation, window functions, UDFs, self-joins, and optimization techniques for writing correct, high-performance queries
• Highly comfortable with object-oriented programming (Python, Java, Scala)
• Expert at using AI and agent-based tools to accelerate data development for yourself and others, including defining guardrails, workflows, and context for safe, production-scale data work

Nice to Haves:

• Experience at a fast-scaling or SaaS company, with enthusiasm to contribute in such an environment (current Notion users especially welcome)
• Hands-on experience designing and building highly scalable, reliable data pipelines using BigData stack tools (e.g., Airflow, DBT, Spark, Hive, Parquet/ORC, Protobuf/Thrift), 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.

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. 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.