Description:

Neo4j is seeking experienced backend engineers to join their team focused on developing the distributed aspects of the Neo4j database.
The role involves building on their fast and open-source native graph database, delivering critical enterprise features such as high availability, distributed consistency, horizontal scalability, and deployment flexibility.
Candidates should have experience with complex distributed systems and understand the associated pain points and design trade-offs.
Daily work encompasses a wide range of tasks within the database stack, from low-level efficient IO systems to high-level distributed control planes.
The development culture emphasizes quality and correctness while allowing for pragmatism and fast-paced problem-solving.
Responsibilities include coding features, collaborating with support engineers to resolve bugs, working with SREs to support database services, and engaging with product managers to design new features.
Engineers will have opportunities to learn, think, and experiment, specializing in topics of interest to contribute to personal and team growth.

Requirements:

Candidates must be able to work independently within a flexible software development organization.
Strong communication skills are required to discuss and collaborate on complex topics.
Experience with distributed systems through usage, administration, or development is essential.
A desire to learn modern and high-performance Java programming is necessary, or prior knowledge of Java is preferred.
Candidates should be willing to work as part of a geographically distributed team.
Nice to have: experience building stateful distributed systems, working with distributed orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and familiarity with large code bases.

Joining Neo4j offers the chance to shape the future of data and analytics in a rapidly growing company.
Neo4j is recognized as the most popular graph database globally, with a proven product/market fit and a strong customer base.
The company has raised significant funding, positioning it among the most well-funded database companies in history.
Employees benefit from a culture that values relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
Neo4j is committed to providing an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace, encouraging applications from all qualified candidates.