Engineering Manager, Data Platform Foundations

The role

You will lead the Data Foundations team to build and operate batch and streaming infrastructure. You will set strategy for the data lake, streaming, distributed-compute, governance, and reliability systems.

What you will do

• Set direction for Data Foundations and align engineers and partner teams.
• Build and develop a high-performing team.
• Lead complex initiatives from idea to operation.
• Make the data platform enterprise-ready for external key management, data residency, and access controls.
• Raise reliability, simplicity, and cost efficiency of systems.
• Establish reusable abstractions and paved paths.
• Scale expertise through coaching, documentation, and design reviews.

Required qualifications

• Deep data-platform expertise in large-scale batch and streaming systems.
• Experience leading a Data Platform or infrastructure team through multi-quarter work.
• Experience in team-building and talent development.
• Hands-on engineering judgment.
• Platform-product thinking.
• Organizational influence.

Nice to have

• Intellectually curious
• Drawn to tinkering and discovery
• Excited to use AI as a real collaborator

Benefits

• Highly competitive cash compensation
• Equity
• Benefits

About the company

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.