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Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
Millions of people rely on Notion to do their most important work. Protecting that trust is foundational to everything we build.
Notion is looking for a Security Operations Analyst to join our Detection and Response team. In this role, you will help monitor, investigate, and respond to security events across Notion’s cloud-native and SaaS-focused environment, while contributing to the continuous improvement of our detection and response capabilities.
This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys hands-on security operations and wants to take on meaningful ownership over investigations, detections, and response workflows over time. You’ll work closely with experienced security engineers and analysts in a collaborative, high-trust environment that values learning, iteration, and operational excellence.
You will play a key role in protecting Notion’s systems, users, and employees by responding to security events and improving how we detect and respond to threats at scale.
Investigate and respond to security alerts end-to-end, including triage, scoping, containment, remediation, and documentation.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding to security alerts and incidents as part of a shared team responsibility.
Take ownership of specific detections, log sources, or investigation workflows, ensuring their quality, reliability, and ongoing improvement.
Contribute to detection development and tuning, identifying gaps, reducing false positives, and improving signal quality across telemetry sources.
Support incident response efforts, working with cross-functional partners to investigate and resolve security incidents.
Participate in proactive threat hunting, developing hypotheses based on threat intelligence, attacker behavior, and internal telemetry.
Analyze and correlate logs across cloud, identity, endpoint, and SaaS platforms to identify suspicious or anomalous behavior.
Improve operational processes and documentation, including runbooks, playbooks, and investigation procedures.
5+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, detection engineering, or a related security role.
Experience triaging and investigating alerts across SIEM, EDR, and cloud-native platforms.
Familiarity with detection development and tuning, including rule logic and false-positive reduction.
Working knowledge of attacker TTPs and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, and how to detect them using available telemetry.
Understanding of the incident response lifecycle, including investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned.
Experience supporting real-world security investigations and documenting findings.
Ability to collaborate effectively with partners across Security, IT, and Engineering.
Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and common security risks.
Experience investigating identity and access activity in systems such as Okta, Google Workspace, or cloud IAM platforms.
Comfort working with logs from diverse sources, including authentication, endpoint, and infrastructure systems.
Clear and thoughtful communicator who can explain technical issues to varied audiences.
Strong documentation skills to support consistent, repeatable incident handling.
Comfortable working across teams to solve complex security problems.
Experience with scripting or automation (e.g., Python, Bash) to streamline investigations or improve analyst workflows.
Familiarity with detection logic or query languages such as Sigma, KQL, Splunk SPL, YAML, or YARA.
Security certifications such as Security+, GCIH, or equivalent.
Exposure to compliance or risk frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Engagement with the security community through open source, blogs, talks, or research.
This role participates in a 24/7 on-call rotation as part of the Detection and Response team.
On-call responsibilities include investigating alerts, responding to incidents, escalating when appropriate, and following established response procedures.
The team continuously works to improve detection quality and operational processes to maintain sustainable on-call practices.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification. We’re looking for curious, security-minded individuals who are excited about Detection & Response and eager to grow their skills while protecting millions of Notion users.
We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
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Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs Inc. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking.
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