Software Engineer - Infrastructure

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:

Neo4j’s managed cloud offering, Aura, brings the power of graph databases to the cloud. We’re expanding our Aura Infrastructure team and looking for an ambitious Engineer to join us.

Our team combines experience in pure software development and infrastructure engineering, so we’re interested in speaking to candidates from both an operational and development background. 

Working with Cloud Infrastructure

“Provide the core infrastructure that Aura is running on”

Within the Aura Infrastructure team, the focus and responsibility is to design, build, manage and improve the core Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure and its components.

On this team, you will have a high influence on defining and refining the underlying cloud infrastructure such as cloud networking, compute, storage, logging and much more across multiple CSPs. We are managing more than 800 Kubernetes clusters in production today, and this core infrastructure continuously needs to be improved and maintained.

We use a mix of custom Kubernetes operators, open-source tooling, and infrastructure as code daily to maintain the Neo4j Aura infrastructure.

If you are interested in building a robust production system at scale to support Neo4j’s managed graph platform, then this role is for you.

What you will do:

• Design, develop and implement processes, tools and documentation to improve the core cloud infrastructure for Neo4j’s managed graph platform..
• Collaborate with teammates, peers across other teams and Product Managers to understand, prioritise and build features for both internal and external use.
• Handle day-to-day operations of the infrastructure.
• Build resilient and high-availability cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS and Azure.
• Investigate operational issues across Kubernetes, cloud networking, compute, storage and logging, and develop automated solutions that prevent them from recurring.
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment.
• Technologies you’ll be working on include managed Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS), compute (Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter, GCP Custom Compute Classes), cloud networking and storage (CSI drivers), logging infrastructure (FluentBit, Google Cloud Logging) and security.

What you’ll need:

• Expertise in one or more CSP; AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Experience building production software projects in Go, or transferable experience in a similar language.
• Experience using Kubernetes in production.
• Knowledge and understanding of the basic built-in Kubernetes resources such as Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets.
• Knowledge of running stateful workloads using StatefulSets, PVC and PVs.
• Knowledge around the operator pattern in Kubernetes and how to extend the Kubernetes API through Custom Resources.
• Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience using IaaC, such as Terraform, Crossplane, Config Connector, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and Azure Service Operator.
• Experience with VMs, Linux, understand networking and storage.

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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