Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India · Engineering

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure role at Notion, focusing on managing and improving data pipelines, Snowflake, Airflow, and AWS services. Responsibilities include Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD hardening, compute provisioning (EMR, EKS), observability, and operational coverage. Requires 7+ years of DevOps experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, strong SQL, and Python skills. The role is based in India and is part of a US-led team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and improve Terraform stacks for AWS and Snowflake resources, ensuring services are properly tracked, modularized, and secured.
  2. Harden pipelines with alerting on test failures, PR validation with plan previews and impact analysis, and deployment guardrails.
  3. Set up and maintain EMR clusters (and EKS in the future), track health, and scale based on workload needs.
  4. Configure monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to keep the platform healthy and issues visible.
  5. Triage DAG failures, infrastructure alerts, and platform incidents during India hours, providing faster response times for the team.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years as a software or infrastructure engineer with strong DevOps experience
  • Experience in data platform or infrastructure domains
  • Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) across services like EMR, S3, Athena, and EKS
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Proficiency in Python or another object-oriented language
  • Self-starter who can independently identify opportunities and execute with minimal direction

Nice to have

  • Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Honeycomb)
  • Familiarity with dbt CI/CD patterns, testing, and deployment
  • Experience with Apache Spark and/or EMR-based data processing
  • Exposure to Snowflake administration or Snowflake Terraform management
  • Experience working across time zones at a fast-growing SaaS company

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years as a software or infrastructure engineer with strong DevOps experience.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) — you've managed large stacks and know how to modularize, optimize, and debug complex issues.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline design, caching, artifact management, and deployment strategies.
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) across services like EMR, S3, Athena, and EKS.