Forward Deployed Engineer, Migrations (India)

About the role

Notion is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on migrations to join its growing team in India. You will help deliver complex, production-grade data migrations, integrations and automations for customers across APAC. This is initially an internally focused, hands-on engineering role, partnering with regional Forward Deployed Engineers who own customer discovery, solution architecture, stakeholder communication, risk management and final customer validation.

You will own the technical execution layer, from feasibility assessment and implementation through testing, production rollout, QA, reconciliation, reporting and operational handoff. You will also help build a new regional engineering capability from the ground up, creating migration infrastructure, standards and reusable tooling used by FDEs across APAC.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical execution layer after the regional FDE has defined requirements, scope and architecture, and contribute to feasibility, estimation, planning and risk identification.
• Follow a repeatable migration lifecycle: source inventory and sampling, scope and pruning, compatibility and degradation assessment, transformation design, pilot or dry run, UAT, production cutover, reconciliation, remediation, hypercare and documented handoff.
• Translate approved requirements into 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 behaviour, data quality, permissions, rate limits and authentication constraints, and recommend practical solutions.
• Design and validate permissions, ownership and inheritance mappings, and design migrations for reliability, scale, security, observability, idempotency and failure recovery.
• Execute migrations only through approved environments, devices, accounts and tooling, following least privilege and customer-specific security and data-residency requirements.
• Build validation and reconciliation frameworks, debug failures across code, infrastructure, customer data and third-party systems, and manage multiple workstreams with clear communication of scope, progress, risks and trade-offs.
• Document assumptions and trade-offs, convert repeated patterns into reusable components, automation and playbooks, and share field learnings with Product and Engineering teams.

Required profile

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in backend, data, integration, implementation, technical consulting or solutions engineering.
• Experience owning a production migration, integration or technical implementation through mapping, transformation, testing, rollout, validation and handoff.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, release practices and production deployment.
• Clear written and verbal English, and high agency and ownership.

Required skills

• Strong hands-on Python development.
• Working experience with Node.js, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Strong SQL and relational databases, data modelling and data transformation.
• REST APIs, JSON, authentication, webhooks and system integrations.

Nice to have: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS/GCP/Azure, message queues, observability tools, enterprise SaaS implementations, large-scale data migrations, AI/LLM applications, and experience with distributed global or APAC teams. The role is based in Hyderabad, India, with office presence on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.