Software Engineering - Clustering & Distributed Systems

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our team, which develops the distributed aspects of the Neo4j database. The team is responsible for ensuring the data in our native graph database is replicated consistently across systems while maintaining high query performance. The work is critical for our enterprise customers, who expect our database to provide high availability, horizontal scalability, and deployment flexibility.

Responsibilities

Develop distributed aspects of the Neo4j database; Ensure data in the native graph database is replicated consistently across systems while maintaining high query performance; Work spans low-level systems programming (concurrency, networking and storage) to higher-level development of distributed control planes; Work with support engineers to track down tough bugs, with SREs to support database as a service offering, and with product managers to design new features; Spend time learning and experimenting, specialising in topics that help grow yourself and the team

Requirements

Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organisation; Ability to communicate clearly about complex topics; Desire to work collaboratively on difficult problems and features; Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development; Experience with, or a strong interest in learning, modern, high-performance, concurrent Java programming

Nice to have

Experience building stateful distributed systems (such as databases, message brokers or stream processing systems); Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development; Experience working with orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes; Existing knowledge of Java programming, the Java ecosystem or JVM internals; Experience with working on large code bases