Software Engineer, Developer Experience – Go Lead

Notion

Software Engineer leading Go support at Notion's collaborative workspace while enhancing developer experience and productivity. Own platform success and establish reliable Go services.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $299,000 - $352,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build out Notion’s next fully supported language (alongside TypeScript), with a clear operating model teams trust.
Own the success of Go as a platform at Notion, while helping the Developer Experience team tackle whatever engineering productivity bottlenecks matter most. Go is the primary focus today, but there is opportunity to shape areas such as AI-assisted development, remote agent environments, CI performance, deployments, and developer workflows.
Establish safe, reliable frameworks and patterns for running Go services at scale (deployment, observability, reliability, and generally “how we do production”).
Enable service architecture, maintenance, and ownership through easy, AI-enabled tooling that reduces toil and raises quality.
By your 90th day, you’ll have shipped a concrete “Go platform v1” that unblocks at least two production teams operating services at real world scale.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Over 10 years of hands-on software development experience, thriving in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
Deep Go expertise, including experience operating production Go services at scale.
Track record of defining, driving, and owning a platform that other teams adopt: libraries, golden paths, migration playbooks, and guardrails that make systems easier to run.
Strong systems judgment: you can make trade-offs explicit (speed vs safety, abstraction vs flexibility) and bring teams along without turning it into a committee.
Curiosity and breadth to jump onto the highest-leverage developer experience problems as needed.
A drive to make developers’ lives better: you have a strong interest in keeping engineers in their flow state, and especially in thinking outside of the box to find ways to pave a better golden path for engineers to follow.
Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact, not just going after cool stuff, and prioritize projects accordingly. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go.
You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive cash compensation
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Hard Skills & Tools

GoTypeScriptAI-assisted developmentCI performanceservice architecturedeploymentobservabilityreliabilitysoftware developmentproduction services

Soft Skills

systems judgmentcuriosityproblem-solvingbusiness-orientedpragmaticteam collaborationadaptabilitycommunicationleadershipdeveloper experience