26 to 50 of 854 Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Senior Platform SRE

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
team, owning pieces of the reliability platform that hundreds of engineers depend on. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, observability, and systems reliability, turning reliability from a reactive concern into a proactive engineering discipline.You will partner with Platform Engineering, product teams, and Reliability Champions to define … understand, and prevent a repeat. # **What you'll do** **Build and own the reliability platform*** Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing. Maintain SLO, error budgets and burn-rate tracking* Establish and maintain 24/7 operational readiness including automated deployments, blue/green releases ...

Backend Engineer (AI Native)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
largest companies operate? Some of the world's largest organisations are held back by the very software designed to support them. Complex legacy systems, fragmented infrastructure and slow moving processes make innovation harder than it should be. This company is changing that. They're building an AI native operating … system for the enterprise, designed to remove IT complexity, modernise critical systems and fundamentally change how large organisations operate. With a recently secured $60M Series A, backing from leading investors and major global enterprises already trusting their technology, they're making a serious impact in one of the most ...

Principal Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NHS England
Location
Leeds, London, Exeter, LS1 4PL, United Kingdom
Salary
£99380.00 to £111485.00
summary Principal Systems Engineers provide technical leadership and are responsible for the operation and running of national, highly available distributed systems being built and run within NHS England. These systems can differ in size, scale and purpose, but an example system would: Have a round … large volumes of sensitive data - hundreds of millions of records and documents. Have a direct clinical impact on patient care. These national critical systems enable safe, reliable identification across health and care, supporting services used by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Main duties ...

Senior Data Plaform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aker Systems Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive … performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations. In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a One to Watch on the Sunday ...

Fractional Lead Graph Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elliot Marsh
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Part Time
detection of risk and anomalies. The business is now building the technical foundations of the platform and is looking for an experienced graph and distributed systems specialist who can provide senior-level expertise on a fractional basis. Fractional Lead Graph Engineer The Role: The Fractional Lead Graph Engineer … infrastructure specialists, transferring knowledge into the wider engineering team Fractional Lead Graph Engineer You: - Significant commercial experience designing and scaling enterprise graph databases, distributed data systems or high-volume event-driven backends - Strong production experience with Neo4j and graph query languages such as Cypher or Gremlin - Deep understanding ...

Senior Software Engineer - iCloud Platform - Observability

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apple's cloud services platform and infrastructure. You will be working on foundational systems that power iCloud services, including distributed data platforms, storage systems, and a unified observability infrastructure that standardizes monitoring and telemetry approaches across … highest priority on user experience and data privacy. Description We're looking for engineers with a strong track record of building fault-tolerant, distributed systems, and the judgment to operate confidently in a complex, high-scale environment. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel ...

Senior Software Engineer - DataHub Experience & Control Plane

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
stack required to make it real. What’s the role? This is a senior full-stack engineering role at the intersection of product experience, distributed systems, developer platforms, data infrastructure, and AI-ready metadata. You will help design and build the next generation of DataHub: the interfaces, backend … services, and control-plane systems that allow Bloomberg engineers to move from intent to outcome — from finding the right dataset to understanding it, accessing it, provisioning infrastructure around it, querying it, publishing it, and operating it safely in production. This is not only a frontend role ...

Senior Software Engineer, Training & Experimentation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction. Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning … challenge ourselves to grow, and focus on the work that matters most. Think Long-Term: We design for what's next. We create scalable systems, simplify complexity, and use AI and automation to amplify our impact. What We're Looking For The Training & Experimentation team at Lightning AI builds ...

Software Development Engineer - Personalisation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
real-time recommendations, offers, targeting, andexperimentation across our web, mobile, and in-store channels.Our platforms combine real-time data, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems toturn customer insights into intelligent decisions in milliseconds. You'll work on complexengineering challenges spanning streaming data, low-latency decisioning services … MLpowered systems, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and analytics teams. This is an opportunity to build technology at significant scale, influence the evolution of ourpersonalisation platform, and directly impact how millions of customers discover, shop, and savewith Tesco. You will be responsible for · Building low-latency, high ...

Software Engineer - Fleet Management & Repair Automation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Fleet Management builds the automation layer for Meta's data center fleet. We own the systems that plan, orchestrate, and execute the operational workflows that keep hundreds of thousands of machines healthy, available, and efficient across every region, and increasingly across public cloud providers as well. Our platforms cover … agentic workflows, backed by the observability and quality signals needed to trust them. Practically, this means we build large-scale workflow orchestration engines: systems that model operational intent, schedule it against fleet constraints, execute it across dozens of downstream systems, and decide what to do when steps fail. ...

Quant Developer in AI

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator. Quant Developer in AI You're a quant developer. You've built high-performance systems that process billions of events per day in real-time, and you care deeply about consistency, correctness and performance. Now you want to build … fast and you own it. Help us build the AI data platform for the future of robotics. The role You know how to build systems that are fast and correct under pressure. The hardest problems in AI right now are data problems: distributed, data-intensive systems that ...

Golang Software Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
management, execution workflows and trading infrastructure used by institutional clients globally. You'll be joining an engineering-first environment with significant ownership, working on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture and business-critical platform capabilities. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain backend applications using Golang Build scalable services supporting … digital asset trading systems Develop APIs, microservices and distributed backend infrastructure Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities Improve system performance, reliability and scalability Contribute to architecture, technical design and engineering best practices Skills & Experience Commercial experience developing software with Golang Strong backend engineering ...

Principal Application & Product Architect

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
first and contract‐driven design. Understanding of platform engineering concepts such as shared services, internal platforms, and standardized deployment paths. 3. Data, Integration, and Distributed Systems Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including resiliency, fault tolerance, observability, and consistency trade‐offs. Experience designing and integrating data … intensive systems (transactional, analytical, and messaging‐based). Expertise in enterprise and partner integrations, including API gateways, authentication/authorization, and versioning strategies. 4. Pragmatic Architectural Governance Ability to define and evolve architectural standards and reference patterns that teams actually adopt. Strong judgment to know when to enforce standards ...

Senior Platform Software Engineer - SRE

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
that millions of learners and tutors rely on every day. Our platform handles over 20bln requests per month, and we combine software engineering, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to keep it reliable at scale while making it faster and easier for engineering teams to build … part of the SRE team, you’ll focus on: Reliability at scale: maintaining high availability while traffic continues to grow. Platform scalability: evolving the systems that support Preply as our product and engineering organisation grow. Developer productivity: building core services and tooling that help engineers ship safely and quickly ...

Manager of Software Engineering - Low Latency Java

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met. Drive architectural reviews, code reviews, and business demos. Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure systems are operationally sound and performant at scale. Provide out-of-hours application support and coordinate production releases. Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills Formal training … programming techniques and technologies (e.g., Inter-Process Communication, Memory-Mapped Files, Ring Buffers). Proficiency with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers. Experience working on distributed systems and knowledge of distributed systems design patterns. Detailed knowledge of relational database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB), including resiliency, recoverability, scalability ...

Distributed Network Engineer/Architect

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
supporting a fast-scaling semiconductor company developing next-generation networking and security technology. They are looking to hire an experienced Distributed Network Engineer/Architect to join their fast growing team in London. This is a hands-on staff engineer position with ownership of distributed networking architecture … design decisions that span multiple teams, acting as the fulcrum across their networking, security and distributed system teams. You will be taking technical (Design/Architecture/Implementation) ownership over large-scale network and control plane systems that operate at global scale across cloud and networking domains, defining ...

Principal Software Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
pragmatic. You will set a high technical bar while staying close to delivery, helping teams make sound trade-offs and building reliable, secure systems that can evolve with the business. ## **How We Work** As a Principal Software Engineer, Corpay will set you up for success by providing:* Assigned … role will include: * Provide hands-on technical leadership across the Client Lifecycle vertical, setting direction for the design, evolution and operation of systems supporting KYC, onboarding, accounts, operations and data.* Define and champion pragmatic engineering principles, architectural standards and reusable patterns that enable teams to deliver consistent, secure ...

Software Development Engineer III

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
technical specifications. Design, build, and operate production generative AI applications such as copilots, assistants, knowledge‐search experiences, and agentic workflows, as reliable, production‐grade systems rather than demos. Architect and implement end‐to‐end retrieval‐augmented generation pipelines, including parsing, ingestion, chunking strategy, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and prompt … verifiable and regressions are caught before production. Take end‐to‐end ownership from discovery and design through build, rollout, and operational excellence. Instrument systems with the observability, cost tracking, and audit trails needed to know when they degrade. Apply FinOps and cost‐optimization practices to AI workloads, tracking ...

Staff Software Engineer - AI

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
technical direction. This is a genuinely hands-on Staff-level role. You’ll work across the core product, building and shipping production AI systems while solving complex backend, infrastructure and distributed systems challenges. What you’ll be doing Building and shipping core product features across Python, TypeScript … cloud infrastructure Designing scalable, event-driven and distributed systems Developing and integrating AI-powered product functionality Working directly with customers to understand problems and turn them into technical solutions Taking ownership from initial idea and architecture through to production Helping establish engineering standards around reliability, testing, security ...

FX Risk Lead Java Developer + AI (VP)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed … Citi, we are actively redefining how technology drives global finance — every day, $5 trillion crosses our network. You’ll architect and deliver the systems that power real-time FX risk management for one of the world’s largest financial institutions, working in an environment where ...

Software Development Engineer III, Fiat Payments (Backend)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Tether, and Animoca Brands About the role Transak's Fiat/Payments team builds and operates the rails that move money between traditional banking systems and crypto — ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, wires, virtual accounts, and card rails. As an SDE 3, you will own critical, high-throughput payment microservices … design, build, scale, and operate systems that move real money for users across multiple currencies and jurisdictions, with US,UK/EU regulatory and global banking-partner requirements as a core part of the job. This is a senior individual-contributor role calibrated against SDE 3/Senior Engineer ...

Senior Software Engineer - C++

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Build software that powers unmanned systems already deployed in the real world. At sees.ai , we’ve developed a system that is already being used to inspect critical national infrastructure — operating in live environments, not simulations. Now, following a major contract with National Grid and recent investment, we’re scaling … Engineer to help take a working system and evolve it into something reliable, scalable, and ready for wider deployment. The Role This is a systems-focused engineering role, not a narrow backend position. You’ll work across the core software stack that powers our unmanned systems — contributing ...

Senior Software Engineer – Data

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
want to help define the future of finance? Are you a strong software engineer who is passionate about data, distributed systems, and delivering impact at scale? Are you looking for a values-driven company that invests in its people and gives you the autonomy to shape critical systems … data and intelligence platform sits at the heart of everything we do. As a senior engineer, you will personally design and build data systems that serve as the backbone of all Elliptic products. By collaborating across blockchain, intelligence and product teams, you will deliver innovative features that help ...

Principal Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £600 per day + Inside IR-35
Remote Working | Occasional Travel to London We're looking for a Principal Developer to join a major engineering programme delivering large-scale, cloud-native systems within AWS. This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining close to the code while helping … decisions, technical governance and live service operations. What You'll Be Doing Leading the design and development of large-scale cloud-native applications. Delivering distributed, event-driven microservices-based solutions. Providing technical leadership and direction across multiple teams. Collaborating with architects, security specialists and senior stakeholders. Acting ...

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
adoption of AI-enabled solutions for automation and efficiency. The position combines strategic leadership with hands‐on governance to ensure highly available, resilient systems that align with business and regulatory requirements. As a technology thought leader, you will influence engineering standards, enhance operational frameworks, and foster a culture … within SDLC practices Define and monitor KPIs for system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency Advance automation, Infrastructure as Code approaches, and promote self‐healing systems using AI/ML techniques Develop robust incident management frameworks and lead major incident response activities for critical systems Implement blameless postmortems ...