Software Engineer - Orchestration

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering company in the graph database space as a software developer. This role focuses on Neo4j Aura, a Kubernetes-based service that simplifies database management for clients worldwide. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, including Go and Kubernetes, in a collaborative and inclusive environment. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions that empower organizations to leverage their data effectively. If you're passionate about building production systems and want to be part of a dynamic team that values diversity and creativity, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Go programming and automated testing is essential.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Neo4j clusters using Kubernetes.
• Collaborate within a distributed team to achieve project goals.

Skills

Go programming

Automated testing

Kubernetes

Bash

GitHub Actions

Tools

Kubernetes on AWS

Kubernetes on GCP

Kubernetes on Azure

Job description

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.

Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving its accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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 a software developer to join Neo4j Aura, our mission-critical and high profile Kubernetes-based Graph Database-as-a-Service project that is providing highly available Neo4j database clusters to our customers around the world.

The Aura service delivers the power of Neo4j without the hassle of database setup, monitoring, maintenance, backups or updates. We take care of all that behind the scenes leveraging the power of Kubernetes. In the Aura Orchestration team, we are developing a custom Kubernetes operator to manage Neo4j clusters, running on Google, Amazon and Azure clouds.

If you are interested in building production systems on Kubernetes, this is a fantastic role for further specializing in this exciting technology.

The ideal candidate will be familiar with:

• Go programming
• Automated testing

Our team is collaborative, open, humble and likes to reach goals while having a good time. We value diversity and try to leverage our differences. The way of working encompasses pair programming, daily standups, wider team catch-ups, retrospectives and frequent 1-on-1s with your manager. The team is distributed across Europe.

Our tech stack includes Kubernetes on AWS, GCP and Azure, Go, Bash and GitHub Actions.

We continuously meet candidates so send your application today!

Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

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:

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(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)