Software Engineering - Clustering & Distributed Systems

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Entry level
Information Technology
The Role
Develop and maintain distributed components of the Neo4j database, including high availability, consistency, scalability, and deployment features. Build functionality across the database and managed Aura service, collaborate with support engineers, SREs, product managers, and distributed teams, troubleshoot complex production issues, and contribute to high-performance Java systems, Kubernetes operators, and stateful distributed architectures.
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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:

We are looking for experienced backend engineers to join our team which mainly develops the distributed aspects of the Neo4j database. Building on our fast and open source native graph database, our team delivers critical enterprise features such as high availability, distributed consistency, horizontal scalability and deployment flexibility.

We’re particularly excited to hear from people who have developed and maintained complex distributed systems before; who have experienced some of their pain points and design trade-offs first hand.

Your contributions will be deployed in production environments around the world, vital to the varied and demanding use cases of our customers. 

What the work is like:
  • The day-to-day work is quite wide-reaching in the database stack, from low-level (efficient IO systems where every flush and allocation counts) to high (distributed control planes where predictability and stability are vital). 
  • The work involves building features end to end - from the core database itself to running and maintaining them in our live managed service Aura.
  • Apart from  features, you’ll also work with support engineers to track down tough bugs, SREs to support our database as a service offering, and with product managers and other teams to design new features.
  • You’ll also spend time learning, thinking and experimenting. Specializing in topics that interest you and helping to grow yourself, the team and the product.
What you'll bring:
  • Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organization
  • Ability to communicate about, and collaborate on, complex topics.
  • Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development.
  • Desire to learn modern and high performance Java programming (or prior knowledge). 
  • Desire to learn Kubernetes and building operators.
  • Desire to work as part of a geographically distributed team.
Nice to have:
  • Experience building stateful distributed systems (such as databases, message brokers or stream processing systems)
  • Experience working with distributed orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development.
  • Existing knowledge of Java programming, the Java ecosystem or JVM internals.
  • Experience with working on large code bases.

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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.
 
©2026 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j Bloom™, Neo4j Graph Data Science Library™, Neo4j® Aura™, and Neo4j® AuraDB™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

Skills Required

  • Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organization
  • Ability to communicate about and collaborate on complex technical topics
  • Experience with distributed systems through usage, administration, or development
  • Desire to learn modern, high-performance Java programming
  • Desire to learn Kubernetes and build operators
  • Ability and desire to work as part of a geographically distributed team
  • Experience building stateful distributed systems such as databases, message brokers, or stream-processing systems
  • Experience with distributed orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
  • Existing knowledge of Java, the Java ecosystem, or JVM internals
  • Experience working on large codebases

Neo4j Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Neo4j and has not been reviewed or approved by Neo4j.

  • Healthcare Strength U.S. medical coverage is characterized as strong with notable company contributions, alongside mental-health support, wellness initiatives, and an EAP.
  • Flexible Benefits Work arrangements are widely described as flexible and largely remote, with support such as internet/phone allowances. This flexibility is positioned as a core part of the global benefits approach.
  • Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards Sales compensation offers attractive earnings potential when targets are met, reflecting pay-for-performance structures. This aligns rewards with measurable outcomes in go-to-market roles.

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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
529 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Neo4j is the leading graph database platform that drives innovation and competitive advantage at Airbus, Comcast, eBay, NASA, UBS, Walmart and more. Thousands of community deployments and more than 300 customers harness connected data with Neo4j to reveal how people, processes, locations and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges including artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data. Find out more at Neo4j.com.

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