Software Engineer - Graph Analytics

The Team:

Do you have a passion for large-scale cloud systems, graph technology, and robust system design? Are you eager to build scalable infrastructure while creating seamless developer experiences? Here at Neo4j, we are building a high-performance cloud platform for graph algorithms and machine learning to help the world make sense of data—from detecting financial fraud and driving real-time recommendations to powering cutting-edge knowledge graphs.

As a Developer on our team, you will sit at the intersection of our entire platform ecosystem. You will gain hands-on experience bridging cloud infrastructure, robust backend services, and user-facing client code. In this role, you will actively contribute to:

• Telemetry & User Observability: Building tools and metrics that give users clear insights into platform health and job execution.
• Data Transfer & Performance: Optimizing pipelines for seamless data ingestion and streaming between client environments and our cloud backend.
• Developer UX Improvements: Refining client interfaces and integration points to ensure our platform is intuitive, fast, and easy to adopt.

This is an opportunity to directly impact the tools our global customer base relies on every day, working alongside a supportive team that will help you sharpen your skills across the full technology stack.

What You'll do:

• Improve Neo4j’s Graph Data Science platform, focusing on its integrations in Neo4j Aura
• Write new features that bridge the gap between on-premise and cloud solutions
• Write Java, Go and Python code with a strong focus on usability, efficiency, and scalability
• Work on and improve the observability of our cloud systems
• Work in a highly collaborative and friendly team of skilled and motivated engineers
• Identify and integrate new areas of research that can solve our customers’ most difficult problems
• Partner with software engineers from other teams in Neo4j to ensure interoperability with the core database

What You'll Bring:

• Interest in JVM languages or system programming languages, such as C, C++, Rust and willingness to learn Java, Go, Python
• Interest or Experience in Kubernetes and cloud computing
• Familiarity with graph theory
• Creativity and motivation to drive your own ideas
• Willingness to work in a distributed and remote-first team
• Master's degree in Computer Science or another related field or 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer

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Why Join Neo4j?

• Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
• Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
• Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
• Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.