Notion
Senior
Own authentication migrations, AI guardrail infrastructure, and authz platform direction at Notion
Notion is hiring a security engineer with 10+ years of experience to own cross-cutting security programs spanning identity/authz, AI agent safety, and platform primitives across 5-10+ engineering teams. This interview probes deep hands-on experience with authentication migrations (SAML/OIDC, OAuth, passkeys, CSP), AI/LLM security protections (prompt injection, provenance), authorization architecture tradeoffs (e.g., SpiceDB vs Macaroons), and the judgment to drive multi-quarter, customer-facing security changes safely.
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What this interview tests
- Authentication migrations (SAML/OIDC, OAuth, passkeys, CSP, session semantics)
- AI/LLM security: prompt injection protections and content provenance
- Authorization platform architecture tradeoffs (e.g., SpiceDB vs Macaroons)
- Driving multi-quarter, cross-team security programs via RFCs
- Mentoring and scaling security practices across partner teams
Common question themes
Walk through a multi-quarter authentication migration you owned end-to-end, including rollout and backwards-compatibility tradeoffs
How would you design prompt-injection protections and a provenance system for AI-generated content across surfaces like Mail/Calendar/MCP
Reason through an authorization architecture tradeoff (e.g., centralized policy store vs. capability-based tokens)
Tell me about writing a security RFC and aligning 5-10+ engineering teams behind it despite pushback
A time you had to balance security rigor against product velocity — how did you decide, and what happened
How do you scale security practices across partner teams without becoming a bottleneck
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