Software Engineer - Software Delivery

Neo4j; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j is expanding its Software Delivery team and seeking an ambitious Engineer to join us in building an internal developer platform to boost engineering efficiency. You will work across Aura and other engineering groups to empower developers with self-service tooling, streamline workflows, and accelerate application delivery.

The role focuses on platform engineering, automation, and tooling to reduce cognitive overhead while delivering high-quality software and robust production readiness.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kubernetes built-in resources (Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets)
• Experience with the operator pattern and extending the Kubernetes API via Custom Resources
• Experience using Golang for multiple projects
• Knowledge of the Golang build/packaging system
• Familiarity with modern CI practices
• Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines from merged PRs to production (K8s)
• Experience building and running Docker images
• Interest in solving developer pain points with tooling

Responsibilities

• Improve build system speed and quality via CI runners and build tooling
• Work with ArgoCD and shape future software delivery methods
• Contribute to Kubernetes as a Control-Plane for resource management lifecycles
• Build and improve developer tooling and scaffolding
• Provide testing frameworks to simplify component testing
• Enhance CD platform with Argo Rollouts for production testing
• Promote modern software development practices like feature flags and testing in production

Skills

Golang

CI/CD

Platform thinking

Developer empathy

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

ArgoCD

Make

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

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 Team:

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

Our team combines experience in pure software development and platform engineering so the combination of experience is vital for candidates interested in joining this team.

The Role:

Increase engineering efficiency by building an internal developer platform

The Software Delivery team drives innovation by enhancing the Developer Experience within Aura. While we collaborate across all Engineering teams at Neo4j, our primary focus is on empowering Aura teams to achieve more with greater efficiency through the practice of Platform Engineering.

We aim to build intuitive self-service tools that eliminate bottlenecks, enabling engineers to focus on what they do best—delivering impactful solutions. By reducing cognitive overhead and streamlining workflows, we accelerate application delivery and amplify the business value our teams create.

This is often referred to as the golden path or the paved road.

Primary responsibilities:

• Improve the speed and quality of our build system by improving our CI runners and build machinery.
• Work with ArgoCD and build the future of how we deliver software to production.
• Work on and improve the Kubernetes as a Control-Plane, to enable engineers to control all of their resources through Kubernetes management lifecycles.
• Build and improve tooling to enable engineers, for example:
• Scaffolding, make it easier to create components
• Provide testing frameworks to make it easier to test components
• Provide a better Continuous Delivery platform with Argo Rollouts to enable testing in production
• Foster a culture of modern software development practices including practices such as
• Releasing under feature flags
• Testing in production

What you’ll Need:

• Knowledge and understanding of the basic builtin resources in Kubernetes such as Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets.
• Knowledge around the operator pattern in Kubernetes and how to extend the K8s api through Custom Resources.
• Experience using Golang for multiple software projects ranging from scripting to larger microservice-type applications.
• Some knowledge around the Golang build and packaging system.
• Knowledge around modern continuous integration practices
• Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines taking software from a merged PR to running in a production environment (most often K8s cluster).
• Experience building and running docker images.
• An interest in understanding the pain points of other developers and ability to come up with solutions addressing those pain points.

What’s nice if you have:

• Experience with the concept of “platform as a product” where the internal developer platform is treated as any other product but of course built for internal engineers. This involves things like
• Working closely with internal engineers to identify pain points
• Making sure the product experience is as good as possible
• Setting up observability around how the platform is performing but also how users are interacting with the platform
• Experience creating abstractions to simplify the local developer workflow via tooling like Make. Experience with k8s-related build tooling like kustomize or helm is also meriting.
• Experience integrating software with Google Cloud Platform, AWS and Azure
• Some experience in common software observability practices such as tracing, logging and metrics exporting.

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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.

• 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.

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:

• (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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