Neo4j

Software Engineering - Clustering & Distributed Systems

Neo4j · London

Posted 26 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
26 days
Neo4j's roles stay open a median of 67 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Neo4j's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Neo4j
high
50 stale, 4 reposted of 72 open
Hiring momentum
87 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Neo4j's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Neo4j.

About this role

The role involves developing the distributed aspects of the Neo4j database, focusing on features like high availability, distributed consistency, and horizontal scalability. Daily tasks include building features end-to-end, maintaining them in the managed service Aura, collaborating with support engineers and product managers, and engaging in learning and experimentation. Candidates will work on both low-level and high-level components of the database stack.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
5/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Neo4j as an employer.

What you need

  • Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organization
  • Ability to communicate about, and collaborate on, complex topics
  • Experience of distributed systems through usage, administration or development
  • Desire to learn modern and high performance Java programming (or prior knowledge)
  • Desire to learn Kubernetes and building operators
  • Desire to work as part of a geographically distributed team

Nice to have

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

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves both low-level and high-level work which may appeal to a broad range of engineers
  • Opportunity to work on a well-established product with a strong market presence

Summarised from Neo4j's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Neo4j on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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