Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Notion
Hyderabad, IndiaremotePosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
EngineeringSoftware EngineerSoftware Developersoftware engineeringObservabilityTypeScriptdebuggingbuildingwrittenTestNGCI/CDDesign PatternsRustSassandCICDAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Requires over 10 years of software engineering experience.
- Role based in Hyderabad, India with mandatory in‑person Anchor Days (Mon, Tue, Thu).
- Focus on building an AI‑powered developer experience and AI bug‑resolution harness.
- Leadership needed to create technical roadmaps and execute large‑scale projects.
- Must have experience building developer tooling (CI/CD, internal platforms) with reliability focus.
- Reasonable accommodations are provided during the application process.
Role overview
Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together, building one place where knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side. The role focuses on building an AI‑powered developer experience that enables engineers, joining the Developer Experience team to deliver AI experiences, remote and local development environments, CI/CD, testing, and verification, and improving developer throughput and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Build an AI harness to auto‑resolve bugs reported for the Notion app.
- Improve CI and build reliability so engineers get early feedback when changes break CI.
- Improve developer features for our in‑house, AI‑first remote development environments.
- Execute a shared roadmap with our US engineering team to increase developer satisfaction and enablement, informed by our DevEx survey.
- Collaborate with engineers across the company to deliver an industry‑leading developer experience, working deeply with tools like the TypeScript language server, lint tooling, and the Notion CLI.
- Turn ambiguous goals into well‑scoped, shippable milestones that meaningfully improve developer throughput and reliability.
- Own AI experiences, remote and local dev environments, builds and CI, deploys, testing, and verification.
- Participate in in‑person Anchor Days (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays) at the Hyderabad office.
Requirements
- Over 10 years of experience with strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of turning ambiguous goals into well‑scoped, shippable milestones.
- Leadership: can create technical roadmap, plan and execute very large projects, and motivate the team for the goal.
- Enjoys learning new technologies and has demonstrated innovation through past work.
- Thrives in ambiguity and can solve business problems through technology.
- Strong ownership and accountability for the success of the project and the team.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to partner with cross‑functional teams and engineering teams across time zones.
- Experience building or operating developer tooling (CI/CD, infrastructure workflows, internal platforms) with a focus on reliability, observability, and developer trust.
- Comfortable creating with AI agents and hardening them: defining guardrails, adding evaluation/testing, and iterating based on real workflow feedback.
- Comfortable creating with agentic workflows: pros‑cons of code‑based orchestration; cost analysis; scalability issues; very long running workflows; verification/ralph loops.
- Systems‑level debugging and performance thinking; can identify bottlenecks, choose pragmatic fixes, and avoid accidental complexity.
- Ability to multiply the team: clear written communication, high‑quality reviews, and coaching/mentoring that helps others ship faster and better.
- Must be based in Hyderabad, India (role location).
Nice to have
- Some knowledge about building AI harness would be additive – tool building; context harness.
- Intellectual curiosity about AI and a desire to use AI as a real collaborator in work.
- Experience with TypeScript language server, lint tooling, and the Notion CLI.
Benefits
- In‑person Anchor Days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) for collaborative thinking and building.
- Reasonable accommodations during the application process for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- Equal opportunity employment with no discrimination based on any legally protected characteristic.
- Commitment to privacy: Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy.
- #LI‑Onsite designation indicating on‑site work expectations.
- Work within a well‑resourced, globally distributed team spanning the US and India.
Additional details
- Who We Are: Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together, serving millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies.
- Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life; we care about craft, building things that last, and that great work is still fundamentally human.
- Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature; each team sets the standard for how humans work together in the AI era.
- A Note on AI: deep AI expertise is not required for every role, but every Notino is expected to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering, and excited to use AI as a collaborator.
- Equal Opportunity & Accommodations: Notion hires from a wide range of backgrounds, considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, and provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.
- By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy.