At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Hyderabad
About the role
- Notion is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on migrations to join our growing team in India, helping deliver complex, production-grade data migrations, integrations, and automations for customers across APAC.
- This is initially an internally focused, hands-on engineering role where you will partner closely with regional Forward Deployed Engineers and own the behind-the-scenes technical execution layer.
- As a founding engineer in India, you will help build a new regional engineering capability from the ground up, creating migration infrastructure, standards, and reusable tooling used by FDEs across APAC.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical execution layer after customer requirements, scope, and solution architecture have been established with the regional FDE.
- Apply a repeatable migration lifecycle covering source inventory and sampling, scope and pruning decisions, compatibility and degradation assessment, transformation design, pilot or dry run, user acceptance testing, production cutover, reconciliation, remediation, hypercare, and documented handoff.
- Translate approved customer and regional FDE requirements into clear technical designs, implementation plans, test strategies, runbooks, and delivery estimates.
- Build production-quality migration utilities, backend services, data pipelines, integrations, and automations using Python, SQL, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Investigate source-system behavior, data quality issues, permissions, rate limits, authentication constraints, and edge cases, then recommend practical solutions.
- Design and validate permissions, ownership, and inheritance mappings against the approved migration plan.
- Design migrations for reliability, scale, security, observability, idempotency, failure recovery, and safe reruns.
- Execute migrations only through approved environments, devices, accounts, and tooling following least-privilege access and security requirements.
- Build validation and reconciliation frameworks that provide clear evidence of migration completeness, accuracy, and exceptions.
- Convert repeated delivery patterns into reusable components, automation, documentation, and playbooks that improve speed, quality, and cost over time.
Requirements
- 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, data engineering, integration engineering, implementation engineering, technical consulting, solutions engineering, or a similar technical role.
- Strong hands-on Python development experience.
- Working experience with Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and data transformation.
- Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, webhooks, and system integrations.
- Experience owning a production migration, integration, or technical implementation through mapping, transformation, testing, rollout, validation, and handoff.
- Experience taking a technical problem from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production operation.
- Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, release practices, and production deployment.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills across code, data, infrastructure, and external systems.
- Clear written and verbal English communication, with the ability to explain technical decisions, constraints, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Workplace
- Role is based in Hyderabad, India.
- Office presence required on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (Anchor Days).
Skills
- Python
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- SQL
- REST APIs
- JSON
- Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
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