Software Engineer - Developer Experience

at Neo4j

Malmö, hybrid

posted 07 Sept 2026

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Golang
Azure
Git
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
CI/CD
Make
Helm
AWS
Kubernetes
Kustomize

About the role

Make Aura the place where the rest of Neo4j can build.

Aura is a powerful environment, but a challenging one to enter. Aura DevEx exists so that “develop in Aura” is a product, not a tribal knowledge problem.

You will work with all users of the platform - both avid users and people new to the platform. You’ll also work alongside teams to help them build on top of the platform. Between directly helping engineers you will take your learnings from the hands-on sessions and improve tooling and documentation or submit feedback to owning teams on how their devex could be improved.

You will not own the delivery platform. You will partner closely with our Software Delivery team so the paved road stays the paved road, and with our platform teams to ensure engineers are empowered to extend the platform to meet their needs.

What you would do

Help teams outside Aura develop in Aura:

- Meet Neo4j Database (non-Aura) engineers where they are. Reduce the Aura-specific overhead of getting a change built, tested, and running in a dev environment.

- Improve the workflows, docs, and tooling that engineers need, — whether they are people who care about the database, a single service, or an integration, rather than the whole platform.

- Support incubation and onboarding: help teams become productive in Aura without Aura DevEx owning their product.

- Work with Software Delivery when the right fix is on the paved road, and take the work that is about who is developing and how they get started.

- Give feedback to the various platform teams to ensure that the underlying platform is intuitive, pleasant to use, and extensible.

Contribute to the AI domain for Aura development

- Maintain and evolve skill files and agent instructions (AGENTS.md, Cursor/Claude skills, and similar) so AI coding agents can operate in Aura with the same constraints we expect of humans.

- Put evaluation and feedback around AI workflows — quality, cost, failure modes, and whether they actually save engineers time.

- Help Aura and non-Aura teams adopt AI in their development process without each team inventing its own stack.

Treat DevEx as a product

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What they are looking for

- Strong collaboration and communication skills.

- Golang experience

- Experience using Golang for multiple software projects ranging from scripting to larger microservice-type applications.

- Some knowledge around the Golang build and packaging system.

- Solid software engineering experience, including shipping tools other engineers use (CLIs, libraries, internal platforms, or developer-facing services).

- Enough Kubernetes and container literacy to help someone develop in Aura — Pods, Deployments, Docker images, and how software gets onto a cluster. Deep operator/control-plane work is not the job; being lost in Kubernetes is not viable either.

- Experience with modern CI/CD and Git-based workflows: taking a change from a branch to something running in an environment.

- Clear writing. A large part of this job is skills, docs, and instructions that both humans and models follow.

- An interest in other developers’ pain points, especially people who are new to a platform, and the ability to design solutions that address those pain points.

What’s nice to you have

- Experience with “platform as a product” or developer experience work: interviewing users, caring about onboarding, measuring adoption.

- Experience maintaining AI skill files, agent instructions, MCP servers, or similar structured context for coding agents.

- Experience with Kubernetes-related developer tooling (Make, Kustomize, Helm) and with simplifying local workflows.

- Experience integrating software with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.

- Experience with observability: tracing, logging, and metrics — including for AI workflows.

#LI-Hybrid

Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph intelligence platform 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.

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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