About the role
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: 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 product teams to consolidate IAM capabilities across critical applications and systems. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in both planning and hands-on execution.
The Role: 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