Software Engineer - IAM, Aura

Location: London 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: The IAM team is responsible for owning authentication and authorisation throughout Aura, right from the time you click sign up in the Console, all the way to the access controls on the cloud-hosted databases. Additionally, we often help unblock other teams by guiding them and building tools and solutions for their IAM-related challenges. We're evolving our existing IAM implementation into a dedicated architecture while continuing to support our current platform and deliver new features. This allows us to solve interesting engineering challenges around architecture, security, and scalability, with opportunities to contribute ideas and take ownership. The Role: We are looking for software engineers who are comfortable working on both frontend and backend features, solving problems and delivering features end to end. You'll have opportunities to take ownership of meaningful technical challenges, collaborate with other engineers and help shape how IAM capabilities are designed and delivered across Neo4j Aura. Previous IAM experience is highly desirable but not essential . If concepts such as JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, and zero-trust authentication are familiar to you, that's a plus. If not, curiosity and a willingness to learn are what matter most. What You'll Do: Improve Neo4j Aura’s identity and access management platform. Build new features, both user facing and engineering driven. Write Python, Go and Typescript code with a strong focus on usability, scalability and efficiency. Work in a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers. Partner with members of other teams in Neo4j. What You'll Bring: Experience with either Go or Python with a willingness to work in any of our other programming languages. Solid software engineering fundamentals, including writing maintainable, well-tested code and taking features from planning through to delivery. Some familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts, whether through professional experience or personal projects. Deeper IAM expertise is welcome but not required. Experience or strengths in at least one area relevant to the role, such as IAM, cloud platforms, distributed systems, evolving legacy systems or breaking down monolithic architectures. A collaborative approach to engineering, including communicating ideas, asking questions, sharing knowledge and working with other teams to solve problems. Initiative and curiosity, with the ability to identify opportunities for improvement, contribute ideas and take ownership of delivering solutions. Technologies We Use: Frontend: React and Typescript Backend: Python (legacy services) and Go (new services) IdP: Auth0 Infrastructure: Kubernetes and Docker GCP, Azure and AWS Production experience with several of the technologies we use is desirable but not essential. #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) Neo4j is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the privacy notice regarding Neo4j's recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide. More information at www.neo4j.com . ©2026 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j Bloom™, Neo4j Graph Data Science Library™, Neo4j® Aura™, and Neo4j® AuraDB™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.