# Engineering Manager, Search & Context Platform

Hiring organization: [Notion](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/notion)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f9325892-ec6e-490b-8ab0-62e3700ce57c

Listed on Notion's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 280000 – 330000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a platform engineering team responsible for search infrastructure, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems that power Notion's agents and 100M+ users. This role suits experienced engineering managers who combine technical depth in distributed systems with the ability to balance foundational platform health against rapid product iteration.

_Our summary, not Notion's wording._

## Skills named

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## Required

- 4+ years leading engineering teams
- Technically deep management approach with comfort debating architecture
- Expertise in search, retrieval, or large-scale data/indexing systems
- Experience product managing platform or infrastructure scope
- Systems judgment on scalability, performance, security, and enterprise readiness
- Ability to make hard tradeoffs between platform health and product velocity
- Experience working with product and AI teams as platform customers
- High tolerance for ambiguity and rapid change

## Nice to have

- Experience building agentic or tool-using systems
- Experience with LLM-based product platforms
- Familiarity with permissioned multi-tenant enterprise data
- Understanding of information retrieval metrics and ranking
- Led teams through rapid scope and priority changes

Apply on Notion's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion/eb46a31c-a258-4b19-afe6-f2c65eaa2dcc/application