Backend Engineer — Distributed Graph Database

Neo4j; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team building the distributed graph database and Aura service. You’ll contribute to high-availability, scalable systems and collaborate across product and SRE teams.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with distributed systems, Java, and Kubernetes, and enjoy solving complex architectural challenges in a global production environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong communication on complex topics.
• Interest in Java and high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop distributed features from core database to Aura service.
• Collaborate with support, SREs and product teams to design features.
• Learn, think and experiment as part of the team.
• Contribute to production deployments worldwide.

Skills

Distributed systems

Independent work

Communication

Java programming

Kubernetes

Distributed team

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Neo4j is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team building the distributed graph database and Aura service. You’ll contribute to high-availability, scalable systems and collaborate across product and SRE teams.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with distributed systems, Java, and Kubernetes, and enjoy solving complex architectural challenges in a global production environment.