Software Engineer - IAM (Aura)

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 neo4j.com 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.

Neo4j’s managed cloud offering, Aura, brings the power of graph databases to the cloud. We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management to architect, implement, and manage enterprise IAM strategies. This role requires strong technical skills and a keen interest in the identity and access management (IAM) domain and is a good fit for someone who enjoys working with different teams to build secure, scalable, and compliant IAM solutions for AuraDB.

You will work closely with security architecture, development, infrastructure, and business teams to deploy IAM capabilities across critical applications and systems. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in both planning and hands-on execution.

IAM Architecture & Implementation

• Contribute to shaping the IAM roadmap and design an architecture that brings together the IAM domains across Aura.

• Develop and maintain scalable IAM solutions including identity governance and authentication frameworks.

Authentication & Authorization

• Implement and manage tooling for configuring authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, MFA) and lifecycle management (SCIM).

• Integrate with enterprise SSO providers (Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity, etc).

• Design and implement relevant access control paradigms for differing business use cases (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ReBAC, FGA).

• Manage application authentication via Auth0.

• Develop access control policies based on least privilege principles.

• Support various authentication and encryption methods: JWT, service accounts, workload identity including SPIFFE/SPIRE, client credentials, mTLS, request signing.

Security & Compliance

• Apply zero trust principles and secure identity patterns for internal/external systems.

• Assess and manage IAM attack surfaces and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements (SOC 2).

Collaboration & Leadership

• Collaborate with engineering, UX, and business stakeholders using Agile methodologies.

• Mentor team members on IAM technologies and best practices.

• Produce clear, well-structured documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

Required

• 7+ years of backend development or software engineering experience.
• Familiarity and exposure to software development with IAM systems (Okta, Auth0, Ping Identity, Oracle Access Manager, AWS IAM, Azure AD/Entra ID).
• Deep understanding of IAM principles, authentication/authorization protocols, and identity lifecycle management.
• Solid grasp of identity security frameworks, protocols, and secure design patterns.
• Experience with Python or GoLang.
• Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Preferred

• 3+ years of professional experience in Identity and Access Management.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes

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