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Software Engineer – Database Kernel

Neo4j · Malmö

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In brief

Neo4j is hiring: Software Engineer – Database Kernel in Malmö.

Duties

  • The Kernel team builds the storage engine and transaction machinery inside Neo4j.
  • If you join us, you will not be building web APIs or shuffling data between services.
  • Instead, you will be working directly on the database engine itself.
  • Our day-to-day is low-level systems engineering.
  • We write and maintain custom storage engines, the page cache, transaction handling (WAL, ACID guarantees), indexing, and memory management.

Required profile

  • Systems programming experience: You are comfortable working close to the hardware.
  • Most of our codebase is Java, but if your background is in C++, Rust, or Go and you understand memory layouts and concurrency, that translates well.
  • Concurrency and data structures: You have a clear understanding of threads, locks

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