Build Systems 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 Teams:

You will be joining the ReleaseOps team - a multi-functional team that covers wide areas related to building, testing, and delivering code. However, initially, you will also be onboarded by the Build Systems team - a newly formed virtual group with a mission to improve the build infrastructure used by over 100 engineers across Neo4j. As this team consists of experienced developers who usually work in other teams, the interaction will only be temporary, and the ReleaseOps team is the long-term home of you and your work.
The Code:

Our build system is currently based on Maven and supports a large repository using both Java and Scala. We face unique technical challenges around incremental builds, IDE integrations (especially with IntelliJ), and reliable packaging.
The Role:

We're looking for a Build Systems Engineer to take ownership of Neo4j's build system and drive its evolution. This role offers the opportunity to go beyond maintenance, bringing fresh ideas and long-term solutions to how we build software at scale. You will be active in a highly collaborative environment with a big impact on day-to-day engineering productivity. You will work closely with the broader engineering organization to identify pain points, provide tooling improvements, and maintain a fast, reliable developer workflow.

As our Build Systems Engineer, you will:

• Own and evolve our Maven-based build system for a large JVM-based repository
• Improve speed, reliability, and maintainability across both local and CI/CD build environments
• Collaborate closely with developers to identify bottlenecks, pain points, and opportunities for improvement
• Introduce and enforce best practices around dependency management, versioning, packaging, and licensing
• Contribute to better IDE experiences and development workflows, especially in IntelliJ
• Help shape architectural decisions related to build tooling, and lead the design of new build features
• Take a service-minded approach, supporting other engineers in building faster and more efficiently

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on build systems or developer tooling
• Hands-on experience with JVM build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Bazel
• Experience working with large repositories and complex dependency structures
• Software development experience in Java or Scala.
• Familiarity with build performance tuning, incremental compilation, and CI optimization

Nice to have:

• Experience with Scala compiler behavior and Maven integration
• Familiarity with IntelliJ or Eclipse plugin/tooling ecosystems
• Knowledge of software packaging pipelines and license/header enforcement
• Contributions to open-source build tools or plugin ecosystems

We encourage you to apply even if you don't have experience across all of these areas, since the team will have a mix of different skills.

#LI-Hybrid

Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database 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.

• Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
• 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 database companies in history.
• 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
• Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
• Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
• Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don't meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we'd encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j Values:

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: ['Open', 'Inclusive']})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:'Positive'})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: 'IntellectuallyHonest'})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments)

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