Notion
Engineering Manager, Data Platform Foundations
$281K–$334K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
About the job
Leads Notion’s Data Foundations team, setting strategy and building reliable, enterprise-ready batch and streaming data infrastructure that supports product, analytics, search, and AI experiences.
What you'll do
- Set multi-quarter platform strategy and lead complex initiatives across data lake, streaming, distributed compute, governance, and reliability.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering team, coaching technical leaders and establishing clear ownership.
- Improve enterprise readiness, reliability, simplicity, and cost efficiency while partnering across engineering and product teams.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and operating large-scale batch and streaming systems across the data platform lifecycle.
- Leadership of a Data Platform or infrastructure team through multi-quarter strategy and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to build teams, develop engineers and technical leaders, and provide clear expectations and feedback.
- Hands-on engineering judgment across critical systems, including architecture decisions, prototyping, simplification, and migrations.
Pay
$281,000 - $334,000 per year (base salary; San Francisco)
Tools
Kafka, Debezium, S3, Iceberg, Spark, EMR, Athena
AI focus
The platform supports AI experiences and use cases. Employees are expected to be curious about and use AI as a collaborator; deep AI expertise is not required for every role.
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