Cloud Software Engineer - Graph Analytics

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Join a team focused on building a high-performance platform for graph algorithms and machine learning, working on impactful products like Aura Graph Analytics to tackle complex data relationships.
About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.

Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.

Our Vision: 

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

The Role:

In the graph data science (GDS) team at Neo4j, we’re building a comprehensive and high-performance platform for graph algorithms and machine learning methods to help the world make sense of data. One of our key offerings is delivered as a SaaS product called Aura Graph Analytics. We build, monitor, and maintain this distributed compute architecture with multiple on-demand runtimes, deployed in the largest clouds via Neo4j Aura.

Our users want to analyze data relationships and structures to develop answers, insights and predictions about their data. You will work on products that will go directly into the hands of our customers who are using Neo4j products to identify financial crimes, perform real-time recommendations, and power knowledge graph applications.

What you'll do:

We are seeking engineers with experience in building production-grade cloud data systems. As part of the group within GDS responsible for our cloud infrastructure, you will:

  • Design and implement the cloud architecture that forms the foundation of current and future GDS offerings.
  • Have the opportunity to learn about and enable state-of-the-art graph algorithms and ML features.
  • Work on our cloud components which include our API backend services and Kubernetes controllers.
  • Develop software primarily in Go and Python.
  • Apply data and benchmark-driven practices to drive decision-making and design.
  • 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 other engineering teams at Neo4j to ensure interoperability with the rest of the Neo4j Aura platform.

What you'll bring:

  • A strong proficiency in writing Go and experience with Python. 
  • Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining highly scalable and available services running in Kubernetes.
  • Experience in designing and using monitoring and alerting tools in the cloud (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Familiarity with Operator Pattern and Kubernetes-related frameworks like controller-runtime.
  • An understanding of security best practices in the cloud.
  • Processing business requirements and working with PM and the Engineering team to form clear technical requirements.
  • Testing complex cloud microservices, infrastructure as code and CI/CD best practices.
  • Experience in developing production-grade software with a focus on performance and scalability.
  • Creativity and motivation to drive your own ideas.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or another related field, or 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with GPU programming (e.g. PyTorch), ML infrastructure, and MLOps tooling.
  • Experience with database technology (SQL, NoSQL)
  • Familiarity with graph theory.
  • Experience working in a distributed / remote-friendly team.
  • Experience with using and developing for Snowflake/Databricks.
  • Experience with JVM languages or with system programming languages, such as C, C++, Rust.
  • Experience with GenAI tools and MCP servers.
Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph intelligence platform in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about 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. 

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues. 

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j Values:

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments) 

Neo4j is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the privacy notice regarding Neo4j's recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide. 

More information at www.neo4j.com.
 
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Neo4j is the world's leading graph database management system, empowering organizations to build intelligent applications for fraud detection, real-time recommendations, and network security at scale.

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