Notion
Engineering Manager, Search & Context Platform
San Francisco, California
Sponsorship not specified$280k-$330kDetected 40 days ago
Data EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIMentoring
About the role
- Notion's Search & Context Platform is the substrate that powers how 100M+ users and, increasingly, Notion's agents find and reason over the right information.
- Staying ahead of the needs of your customer teams by anticipating where the product is going, investing in capacity, capabilities, and primitives and making sure the platform accelerates product velocity.
- Sufficient depth in search, retrieval, or large-scale data/indexing systems: lexical search (e.g. BM25), semantic search (embeddings, ANN/vector indexes), big data pipelines, hybrid retrieval, ranking, and the surrounding infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Data growth is faster than ever, and the systems that power this need to rapidly evolve to support an order of magnitude growth-both in the volume of content we index and in the load that agents now place on the retrieval layer.
- Partner and build closely with the Search & Context product team, the AI team, and other consumers of the platform on the right interfaces, capabilities, and commitments.
- Build and lead the team through hiring, coaching, feedback, growth, and creating an environment where strong technical ICs do their best work.
- Contribute to Notion's broader engineering practices around platform design, reliability, on-call, and AI-era infrastructure.
- A technically leaning management style-you stay close to the code and the design, can credibly debate architecture and tradeoffs with senior ICs, and raise the technical bar of your team.
- Strong systems judgment around scalability, performance, security, build vs buy and enterprise readiness-you've shipped systems that had to be fast, cheap, secure, and reliable at scale, not just functional.
- Experience building agentic or tool-using systems, or platforms that serve LLM-based products.
Requirements
- Familiarity with permissioned, multi-tenant enterprise data-ACL-aware indexing, retrieval, and audit.
Skills
- 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams with a track record of shipping high-quality systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s.
- 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.
- Our goal isn't to ship the next feature.
Compensation
- For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $280,000 - $330,000 per year.
Benefits
- A bias for making hard tradeoffs to unblock product velocity while protecting the long-term health of the platform; comfortable saying "yes, with these constraints" or "no, here's the better path."
- Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
Company info
- Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s. 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.
- 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.
- We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human.
- 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.
- Your most important customers are the Search & Context product team and the AI team (building agents on top of these primitives).
- Experience working closely with product and AI teams as customers of a platform-you can speak both languages and translate between them.
- You'll set the technical direction, product manage the platform scope on behalf of those customers, and make hard tradeoffs to move fast in service of product velocity - while keeping the platform sustainable, reliable, and secure.
This listing is sourced directly from Notion's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.