Crystal stacking offers a powerful yet underexplored route to engineer symmetry in layered superconductors. Here we report superconductivity in rhombohedral-stacked ${\mathrm{NbSe}}_2$ ($3R\text{−}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_2$), a noncentrosymmetric polytype in which global inversion symmetry is removed by stacking alone. Using comprehensive structural, transport, magnetic, and thermodynamic measurements, we establish superconductivity as a bulk property of the $3R$ phase and find that the in-plane upper critical field exceeds the Pauli paramagnetic limit, indicating the persistence of strong Ising-type spin-orbit coupling. Unlike the thickness-dependent superconductivity in centrosymmetric $2H\text{−}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_2$, the superconducting transition temperature in $3R\text{−}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_2$ shows little dependence on the layer number but exhibits an unusually strong sensitivity to disorder. We further observe strongly enhanced nonlinear optical and electrical responses near the superconducting transition, consistent with stacking-induced inversion-symmetry breaking. Our results identify $3R\text{−}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_2$ as a single-phase platform in which stacking engineering reshapes superconductivity and enables nonlinear transport phenomena in layered materials.

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• Superconductivity
• Transition metal dichalcogenides
• Magnetic techniques
• Magnetotransport
• Transport techniques