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.

What You'll Do:

As a Technical Support Engineer, you’ll spend your first 2-4 months immersed in learning Neo4j’s products, support and other internal processes, and working support cases from customers to build up the appropriate level of experience and insight needed to deliver the level of support Neo4j’s customers have come to appreciate and expect. You will also have the opportunity to become deeply skilled in specific areas of interest within the product, acting as a Subject Matter Expert for our Field Engineering team, including Support. Last but not least, you will be an integral part of the Support Engineering team, working together to improve and evolve the product and the support we deliver to meet the needs of our customers and opportunities for graph solutions in the market.

Qualifications:

A Technical Support Engineer at Neo4j is comfortable troubleshooting technical issues, speaking with customers about their needs, questions, and concerns, and working with their colleagues as part of a growing team distributed across the globe. Specific qualifications for the role include:

Role Skills:

Ability to handle a range of urgent to minor support requests during business hours, with occasional off-hours scheduled work and on-call shifts.
Establish and constantly build upon a solid technical understanding of Neo4j and how our customers build, deploy and manage applications using our graph platform.
Collaborate effectively within Customer Success, Product Engineering, and other Neo4j teams to understand and resolve customer issues completely and expediently.
Constantly work to streamline and improve processes, tools, Neo4j’s product offerings, and the overall customer experience.
Know when to seek help, and always be willing and open to offering expertise and assistance to colleagues and customers alike.
Effectively communicate with all levels of customer contacts including CTOs, management, developers and operations teams.
Provide valuable guidance and insight through email, telephone, remote conferencing and occasionally in-person engagements.
Work with Product Management and Product Engineering to help define and drive fixes and enhancements to address customer needs.
Passion for solving Customer problems.
Take responsibility and ownership with Customer problems.

Technical Skills:

Timely triage varying issues based on error messages, log files, threads dumps, stack traces, sample code, and other available data points.
Troubleshoot performance issues in JVM based software (4j means for Java).
Consult with customers on Cypher query tuning (SQL for graphs) and data model design to address performance needs and expanding use cases.
Embrace Neo4j as a part of the customer’s overall architecture, with a need to advise and troubleshoot client application driver connections from official drivers in the following languages/frameworks: Java, Spring, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Go and the JDBC API.
Review and provide suggested improvements to Java User Defined Procedures (and UDFs) and other Neo4j Java API questions (Java experience preferred).
Efficiently troubleshoot cluster issues across multiple servers, data centers, and regions, in a variety of clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc), virtual, and bare metal environments.
Possess demonstrated proficiency in Linux (primarily) and Windows (secondary) environments (#1 and #2 most common OS’s, respectively).
Background in database technologies (SQL, noSQL ) or competing graph database technologies.
Docker and Kubernetes, distributed technologies and clustering
Nice to have: Graph Data Science technology experience, UI, UX

Other Requirements:

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or other technical fields strongly considered
Occasional travel, up to 20% expected
Preferable prior experience in a customer facing support role

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)

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More information at www.neo4j.com.

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