Director of Engineering, Cloud

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 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 Team:Neo4j, the global leader in graph databases, is looking for a Director of Engineering - Cloud to help take our growing engineering team to the next level.You have a background in managing engineering teams and are well-versed in agile development methods. You have a M.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience. You have several years of experience managing software engineering teams, preferably in a product development setting rather than consulting.At a high level, as Director of Engineering, you would be a key player in ensuring that Neo4j has the culture, processes, knowledge and skills to make the graph database category reach its potential and to retain Neo4j's leadership as the world's best graph database.For this particular role within Cloud, you will excel with expertise and prior experience in cloud-native architectures, Software as a Service (SaaS) and delivery models. This includes:Cloud Platform Proficiency: Experience with major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including understanding of their services, cost optimization, and security best practices.SaaS Lifecycle Management: A proven track record of managing the entire SaaS product lifecycle, from development and deployment to operations, scaling, and customer success.Distributed Systems: Strong knowledge of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems in a cloud environment.Operational Excellence: Experience in building and leading teams responsible for site reliability engineering (SRE), incident management, monitoring, and automation to ensure high levels of service availability and performance for cloud-based database offerings.Security and Compliance: Familiarity with industry security standards and compliance requirements relevant to cloud SaaS and database services (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).The Role:On a daily basis your activities and responsibilities include:Participating in standup meetingsGetting a sense of progress and impedimentsKnowing what everyone is doing and how they are performingReading and understanding team dynamicsReporting back to the rest of the organizationWorking with your team(s) and product management on feature deliveryHiring new members of the teamHR work (salary, performance reviews, vacation, leave)Working on continuously improving processes in the organizationFostering a culture of excellence and collaborationNeo4j engineering currently has around 280 members and is continuously growing. Engineering headquarters is in Malmö. There is also a development office in London and individual contributors working remotely. The commercial headquarters is in San Mateo, California and there are over 800 employees worldwide.#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) 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