Software Engineer - Kubernetes & Go

About Neo4j

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 Aura, our managed cloud offering, brings the power of graph databases to the cloud. We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Identity and Access Management team to help rebuild our IAM platform. This role is a great fit for someone with strong backend development and Kubernetes expertise and who thrives on building custom operators, controllers, and platform components. We want you to help us build secure, scalable, and compliant IAM solutions for AuraDB. Our product is deployed on all three major cloud platforms(GCP, AWS, Azure).

You will work closely with various product teams, infrastructure, and security to enhance management of AuraDB IAM capabilities. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in hands-on execution.

The Role

• Build, deploy, and manage cloud-native services in Golang that serve as the backbone of our IAM platform.
• Develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and resources.
• Drive the architecture of our in-flight IAM platform revamp, contributing fresh perspectives to its design and evolution.
• Secure service-to-service communication across distributed infrastructure by applying modern authentication patterns — JWT, mTLS, workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE), and client credentials
• Produce clear, well-structured documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
  
  

Experience

• 5+ years of backend development or software engineering experience.
• Experience in GoLang and Kubernetes.
• Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure).