Engineering Manager, Web Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About 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.

🎯 The Role

The Web Infrastructure team builds the foundations behind Notion’s web clients, including client architecture, performance, reliability, and shared design systems. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the team through the evolution from Notion Clients. You’ll set strategy, develop senior engineers and managers, and partner across Notion to make the product faster, more reliable, and easier to build.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of engineers and managers working on core parts of Notion's architecture.
• Create a healthy environment in your team that embodies Notion's values.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers, ensuring they receive regular feedback and make progress on personal and professional goals.
• Facilitate planning—the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work—for your team.
• Maintain a high-quality bar for everything your team ships.
• Own execution in your team to develop a steady cadence of delivering value to users.
• Work with others to shape how Notion's engineering organization works, including technical practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, and planning and prioritization process.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Managed senior engineering teams and managers, with experience in scaling teams.
• Built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive teams.
• Create team environments that are collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challenging.
• Have a sufficiently deep background in product and technology to ask the right questions, balance product, tech, and people concerns, and make hard tradeoffs.
• Think rigorously, prepared to tackle the toughest technical problems and enable teams to make decisions and progress.
• Have a high tolerance for ambiguity and change, especially around organizational structure and role boundaries.
• Value empathetic and direct communication, particularly when giving and receiving feedback.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Managed engineering teams at startups, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.
• Experience rolling out engineering and management practices and processes where they didn't exist before.
• Managed teams across multiple offices.
• Understanding of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others.

🎁 Benefits

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 $255,000 - $300,000 per year.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.