Release Engineer

About Neo4j

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 it’s 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 scaling up our release cadence and we need to strengthen our release team.

We are looking for a candidate with a background in software development, and code-based infrastructure and who has an interest in process automation. You might have worked as a DevOps engineer or a developer with an interest in tooling and high-scale software development. You are also analytic and have good communication skills, are structured, and have the ability to follow up on different topics with a variety of development teams.

Due to the close collaboration with our core database engineering teams, this role provides the opportunity to build your knowledge of low-level systems, programming, and database design.

What You Will Work With

• Investigate and track down issues by perusing logs, looking at charts, and understanding code
• Discuss and align with development teams about possible solutions
• Automate steps in the release process using a variety of scripting languages
• Work in our CI build service configuring pipelines and administering overall structure
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proficiency in Java and Python
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Automation and cloud experience in AWS
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  
  

Nice To Have

• Proficiency or interest in Kotlin and Bash
• Understanding of databases and their components
• Automation and cloud experience in GCP
• Experience with Infra/Configuration as Code (IaC/CaC) tools
  
  

Our automated tests are run both on AWS cloud instances and on our own cloud-based Aura instances. Tools such as Grafana, Datadog, and Google Cloud Operations are used to ensure we can not only identify when issues arise but also have a straightforward way to investigate where the pain points are.

You will be part of a team of highly skilled software engineers whose responsibilities span over a wide range of domains, and who are collaborating with all the teams that build up Neo4j engineering.