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.
About the role
The Infrastructure Security team’s mission is to build a secure-by-default foundation across Notion’s technical stacks—architecting systems that make the secure path the easy path. As an IC4 on this team, you’ll own meaningful infrastructure security problems end-to-end.
Responsibilities
- Proactively enhance the security posture of AWS accounts and cloud infrastructure
- Create secure frameworks for secrets management and authentication/authorization
- Design and deploy robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
- Provide guidance and education on security and privacy best practices to cross-functional partners
- Participate in (and help drive) mitigation strategies during security-related incident response
Requirements
- Security architecture and expertise: built and maintained systems to secure cloud architectures, ranging from secrets management to Identity and Access Management solutions
- Backend/infrastructure development: written and shipped production-grade code, can contribute to the codebase and architecture
- Working in production: can debug systems in production and continuously improve components with minimal disruption
- Pragmatic, risk-based prioritization: model threats, balance trade-offs, and focus security investments where they drive the most business impact
- Empathetic communication: communicate nuanced ideas clearly in writing and in real time
Nice to Haves
- AWS security best practices, zero trust architectures, and/or deep IAM expertise
- Data security or privacy engineering experience
- Experience applying AI tooling to defensive security workflows
- Participation in security communities
Conditions
- Hybrid work: office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (Anchor Days)
- Competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits
- Estimated base salary range: $230,000 - $280,000 per year