Neo4j
Software Engineer - Core Networking
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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.
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The Role
Here at Neo4j, we’re on the lookout for a software engineer to join our Core Networking Engineering Team, where you will primarily work on the Neo4j network server modules. There will also be scope to work on the drivers and their APIs as well as our proprietary binary protocol.
The drivers act as an adapter between the network and client applications. The server modules manage the server side of the conversation, using both HTTP and our binary protocol, Bolt.
Drawing on your deep understanding of network concepts and binary protocols, you will be a key part of influencing the strategic direction for connectivity with Neo4j and the drivers together with our product managers. You will be leading the design of new features and improvements to the protocol whilst taking on feedback from other experts and stakeholders within the company. You will then implement these designs in the server codebase.
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As well as software development, you will also have the opportunity to do things like supporting community projects, writing blog posts, and helping with training and other events.
What You'll Need
We're looking for 5+ years of practical experience in:
Java language, platform and ecosystem
You Will Ideally Have Experience And/or An Interest In
- Network development (binary protocol specs like Bolt, Frontend/Backend, MongoDB Wire Protocol)
- Network packet analysis (e.g., Wireshark)
- Distributed system design
- API design
- Netty
- Customer experience and developer community interaction
- Concurrency and asynchronous programming
You May Have Also Worked With Some Of
- Database management systems
- Graph Databases
- Java Web Development Specifications (JAX-RS)
- Docker
- System-oriented languages such as: C, C++, Rust or Go
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