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Principal Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Role We’re looking for experienced Principal Software Engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, building scalable systems, and helping engineering teams deliver high-quality software in production environments. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, and cloud/platform engineering. You’ll be designing, building … scalable, secure, and maintainable. It’s a strong fit for someone who enjoys taking ownership of technical direction, mentoring engineers, and helping shape how systems are designed, built, and operated. We're also looking for engineers who embrace modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and agentic ways ...

Site Reliability Engineer III

Hiring Organisation
CME- Group
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III – Platform Engineering & Systems ReliabilityThe Role: CME Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III to engineer reliability for our Google Cloud (GCP) infrastructure, Middleware Platform Engineering team, and core technology foundations powering our Clearing, Risk, and derivatives applications. In this role … will help build resilient, automated systems that combine ultra-low latency with high-concurrency performance, enabling CME's product teams to innovate safely at scale. You will work alongside senior engineers, mentor junior colleagues, engage in the dynamic operation of production systems, and assist in driving our cloud ...

Site Reliability Engineer III

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III – Platform Engineering & Systems Reliability The Role: CME Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III to engineer reliability for our Google Cloud (GCP) infrastructure, Middleware Platform Engineering team, and core technology foundations powering our Clearing, Risk, and derivatives applications. In this role … will help build resilient, automated systems that combine ultra-low latency with high-concurrency performance, enabling CME's product teams to innovate safely at scale. You will work alongside senior engineers, mentor junior colleagues, engage in the dynamic operation of production systems, and assist in driving our cloud ...

Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer – TypeScript, Python, AWS

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
cloud security best practices Troubleshoot issues across both application and AWS infrastructure layers Collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver production-ready systems Requirements Strong experience building applications with React and TypeScript Experience developing backend services using Python Hands-on experience working with AWS in production environments Understanding … cloud-native architecture and distributed systems principles Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling Experience integrating with REST and/ ...

Managing Engineer – Cyber Platform Engineering

Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Drive platform maturity through automation, reuse, standardization, and strong operational discipline. Coach and develop engineers while building high-performing teams with strong execution and systems thinking. Requirements A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or distributed systems delivery. A minimum … years of experience leading engineering teams or technical delivery in product-based environments. Experience operating production systems, services, tools, or pipelines with strong expectations around reliability, observability, security, and maintainability. Strong understanding of integration patterns, automation, cloud-native engineering practices, and scalable platform design. Experience building reusable services, workflows ...

Senior Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Role We’re looking for experienced Senior Software Engineers who enjoy building scalable systems, working with cloud infrastructure, and delivering high-quality software in production environments. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and cloud/platform engineering. You’ll be designing, building, and operating modern software … Develop cloud‐native applications across AWS, Azure, or GCP Contribute to system architecture and make key technical decisions Build and integrate APIs, event‐driven systems, and distributed applications Collaborate with platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable deployments Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and improve engineering workflows Leverage ...

Custody Support Applications Support - Assistant Vice President

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of a suite of business-critical custody and settlement applications. The role focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, microservices, and modern observability platforms supporting securities processing and settlement functions. This position combines traditional application support responsibilities with Site … Management processes. Ensure operational procedures, support documentation, and knowledge articles remain current and effective. What we’ll need from you: Experience supporting enterprise-scale distributed applications within a financial services or mission-critical technology environment. Proven experience in Production Support, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Support, or similar technical ...

AWS Cloud Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
secure, scalable, observable and production‐ready. You’ll play a key role in shaping cloud architecture, automating infrastructure, improving developer experience, and ensuring systems can reliably support AI‐driven products at scale. What You’ll Be Doing Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS Develop Infrastructure … Experience running production workloads on EKS Experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or New Relic Exposure to distributed systems and event‐driven architectures Experience working within consulting or client‐facing environments Familiarity with GenAI, machine learning or data platforms Please note ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£63,824 - £80,158 per annum
Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working … Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include: * Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes. * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments. * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/ ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working … Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include: * Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes. * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments. * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/ ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
/17+). Deep expertise in Spring Boot, microservices, and RESTful API design. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift. Strong understanding of distributed systems (retries, circuit-breakers, observability). Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a large enterprise environment. Must already hold valid UK work authorization ...

Senior AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
PA Consulting
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
DevOps/DevSecOps practices.A collaborative mindset and willingness to share, learn, and teach.Understanding of prompt and context engineering and model evaluation.Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs.An understanding of LLMOps tools for managing GenAI workflows.Additional InformationAssessment process ️ Please note that the interview stages may be subject ...

Entry Level - Site Reliability Engineer - (Remote - United Kingdom)

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment. Do you want to build and manage scaleable, self-healing, globally-distributed systems? Our Site Reliability engineers keep Yelp fast, available, and growing, connecting users to great local businesses. No matter how many times … scraped, scanned, spammed, pinged, paged, or queried, we keep our cool - and keep the site running smoothly. We work in both the dev and systems worlds, implementing key parts of the core architecture and supporting devs as they try to do the same. We get to tackle interesting challenges ...

Software Engineer - AI Agents (Satori)

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
responsible for shipping code and owning production-grade services. This is a uniquely-challenging role: we empower small teams to deliver robust results, the systems are non-deterministic, and the bar is high. The opportunity for meaningful impact is significant. If this excites you, we want … SDKs (LangGraph, OpenAI/Anthropic Agents SDK, MCP, LangChain, or similar) and keep up with the field. Experience contributing to agentic or LLM-based systems in production, including familiarity with the eval, observability, and rollback story. Demonstrated learning velocity and curiosity; driven to understand systems beyond surface-level ...

GenAI Full-Stack Engineer Lead

Hiring Organisation
Citigroup
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
enabled or Generative AI solutions within enterprise environments.Experience building enterprise-scale cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, containers, microservices and event-driven architectures.Strong understanding of distributed systems, resiliency patterns, scalability and performance engineering.Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies, API design and integration patterns.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills ...

GenAI Full-Stack Engineer Lead

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Generative AI solutions within enterprise environments. Experience building enterprise-scale cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, containers, microservices and event-driven architectures. Strong understanding of distributed systems, resiliency patterns, scalability and performance engineering. Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies, API design and integration patterns. Excellent communication and stakeholder ...

Engineering Lead - SVP

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
expertise in multiple programming languages (preferably Python, Go, and TypeScript), frameworks, and tools.* Strong understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases.* Proven experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, container-based micro-services, distributed logs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and DevSecOps.* Experience working in a product focused ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns … Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working ...

Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents (Satori)

Hiring Organisation
Proofpoint
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
capabilities across the entire Proofpoint product portfolio and external partners.This is a uniquely-challenging role: we empower small teams to deliver robust results, the systems are non-deterministic, and the bar is high. The opportunity for transformational impact is significant. If this excites you, we want … SDKs (LangGraph, OpenAI/Anthropic Agents SDK, MCP, LangChain, or similar) and keep up with the field.Prior experience taking agentic or LLM-based systems to production — not just prototypes — including the eval, observability, and rollback story.Deep experience with Python; TypeScript/Node a plus.Hands-on work with agent frameworks ...

Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents (Satori)

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
across the entire Proofpoint product portfolio and external partners. This is a uniquely‐challenging role: we empower small teams to deliver robust results, the systems are non‐deterministic, and the bar is high. The opportunity for transformational impact is significant. If this excites you, we want … SDKs (LangGraph, OpenAI/Anthropic Agents SDK, MCP, LangChain, or similar) and keep up with the field. Prior experience taking agentic or LLM‐based systems to production — not just prototypes — including the eval, observability, and rollback story. Deep experience with Python; TypeScript/Node a plus. Hands‐on work ...

Senior Consultant - Full-stack Developer - DE - TC - UKI - Belfast

Hiring Organisation
EY (Ernst & Young)
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
React, Angular or Vue.Strong backend development experience using Node.js, Java, Python, .NET or similar technologies.Proven ability to design and build scalable APIs and distributed systems.Solid experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.Experience with testing frameworks, unit testing, integration testing and automated testing strategies.Strong understanding of software development … ownership, accountability and attention to detail.What we look forWe’re interested in candidates who can take end-to-end ownership of complex features and systems, balancing hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You should bring a strong voice in shaping how the team builds, delivers and scales software, with ...

Staff Software Engineer (Provenance)

Hiring Organisation
Cloudsmith
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
world's most potent artifact management platform, built by developers for developers. Our platform supports over 30 formats spanning languages, container formats, and operating systems, with enterprise-grade features, including vulnerability and security scanning, world-class policy management and enforcement, and web-scale to handle the Fortune 500. Organizations … building mission-critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organizations worldwide. We operate at the cutting edge of cloud-native technology, tackling complex distributed systems challenges that directly impact millions of developers. Now is an exciting time to join us as we revolutionize how organizations deliver and secure ...

Principal QA Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cloudsmith
Location
Belfast, Down, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
quality practices. The goal is an engineering organization that is permanently more capable: one where quality is an emergent property of how people and systems interact.Key ResponsibilitiesDrive the quality engineering strategy across the platform. You’ll define Cloudsmith’s approach to quality - how we test, what we measure … typically expect 8+ years in QA or quality engineering, with the last few at senior or lead level.Proven experience testing at scale on distributed cloud infrastructure - you’ve worked on platforms with high throughput, complex data flows, or large user bases, with strong working knowledge of AWS. You understand ...

Principal QA Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cloudsmith
Location
Belfast, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
quality practices. The goal is an engineering organization that is permanently more capable: one where quality is an emergent property of how people and systems interact. Key ResponsibilitiesDrive the quality engineering strategy across the platform. You'll define Cloudsmith's approach to quality - how we test, what we measure … typically expect 8+ years in QA or quality engineering, with the last few at senior or lead level. Proven experience testing at scale on distributed cloud infrastructure - you've worked on platforms with high throughput, complex data flows, or large user bases, with strong working knowledge of AWS. ...

Principle Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
solutions. Serve as the organization's technical authority for authentication, authorization, federation, and identity lifecycle management. Design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient software systems that support multiple products and engineering teams. Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across cross-functional initiatives. Drive engineering excellence through software design reviews … based security, and modern authentication patterns. Experience building and operating identity solutions at scale for customer-facing SaaS applications. Strong experience designing and building distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications. Deep understanding of software architecture, security principles, and modern engineering practices. Experience leading technical initiatives that span ...