Software Engineer - Sharding

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<div class="content-intro"><div><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>About Neo4j:</strong></span></div> <div> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Our Vision: </strong></span></div> <div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> </div></div><p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Role:</strong></span></p> <p>We are looking for a software engineer to join the Neo4j Sharding Engineering Team. We own both <a href="https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/scalability/sharded-property-databases/overview/)">Infinigraph</a> and <a href="https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/scalability/composite-databases/concepts/">Composite</a> products within Neo4j. Composite is the technology behind distributed query execution in the Neo4j Database Management System. Infinigraph is our database sharding offering for large data volumes, utilising a distributed database architecture.</p> <p>Both involve distributed query execution, which is a complex and interesting topic, involving query language design and implementation, as well as performant networking and concurrency.</p> <p>As part of an energetic and fun team of engineers, you will be working at the frontier of designing and implementing new capabilities for the Neo4j database.</p> <p>The amount of data handled by our customers is ever-growing, so sharding is ever more important.</p> <p>What The Work Is Like:</p> <ul> <li>Designing and implementing features in different parts of the database stack, from the Cypher language implementation down to cluster networking. We have a development process focused on taking time to achieve quality and correctness. However, there is plenty of room for pragmatism and fast paced problem solving.</li> <li>Our methodology involves daily stand-ups, frequent pair programming, design meetings and retrospectives.</li> <li>Apart from coding features, we also track down both easy and tough bugs, fix downstream test failures, document features, participate in cross-team design meetings, and study the latest in database research.</li> <li>You will also spend time learning, thinking and experimenting. Specialising in topics that interest you and helping to grow yourself, the team and the product.</li> </ul> <p>What You Will Bring:</p> <ul> <li>Experience developing production level software</li> <li>Knowledge of Java, Scala or similar languages</li> <li>Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organisation</li> <li>Ability to communicate about, and collaborate on, complex topics.</li> </ul> <p>Nice to Bring:</p> <ul> <li>Understanding of the internals of databases, compilers or query languages</li> <li>Experience with asynchronous and reactive programming</li> <li>Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development.</li> <li>An interest in recent distributed systems developments (academic or industrial).</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><div><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Why Join Neo4j?</strong></span></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <ul> <li>Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It <a href="https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-revenue-milestone-2024/">recently surpassed $200M</a> in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR <a href="https://neo4j.com/press-releases/2021-company-momentum/">over the past three years.</a> </li> <li>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…