226 to 250 of 1,670 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Development Manager, FX Engineering

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
hiring and organisational structure needed to deliver the product roadmap. Create an inclusive environment that values different perspectives, open communication and continuous learning. Lead distributed teams and work effectively with external technology partners. Partner with Product Share accountability with Product for translating business strategy, customer needs and market opportunities … legacy platforms, including modularisation, simplification and the adoption of reusable engineering patterns. Maintain a strong understanding of Java, C++, Linux, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, messaging and performance engineering. Lead the response to complex production issues and ensure learning is converted into lasting improvements. Embed AI and automation ...

Staff Engineer Engineering London

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
expertise with the ability to build and scale high-performing teams. You will be responsible for the architecture, reliability, and performance of all backend systems powering Wheely’s platform. You will work closely with product, data, and infrastructure leaders to ensure our systems are fast, resilient, and scalable … deliver the most reliable and premium ride-hailing experience in the world. Responsibilities Define the technical vision, architecture, and standards across backend systems Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance at global consumer scale Make high-quality architectural decisions across distributed systems, APIs, and data infrastructure Improve system ...

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Location
Cambourne, England, United Kingdom
PostgreSQL – strong data modeling, query optimization, transactions, and scaling Cloud: AWS, containers, deployment pipelines, monitoring, security, and modern CI/CD Core Engineering: APIs, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, system design, and secure financial infrastructure What Success Looks Like You think like a builder and product owner, not just … breadth, with strong backend foundations and enough frontend/mobile knowledge to lead cross‐platform discussions. Strong system design and architecture experience across APIs, distributed systems, databases, scalability, and reliability. Hands‐on technical leadership experience: architecture reviews, technical decision‐making, mentoring, code reviews, and engineering standards. Strong PostgreSQL ...

Staff Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Staff Software Engineer, you will take on the hardest technical problems across Performativ’s platform and turn complexity into systems that scale. You will move to where things break, slow down, or do not scale, and fix them. You will also help evolve how we build by pushing pragmatic … losing control. What you’ll do Take on the hardest technical problems across the platform and drive them to resolution. Move across teams and systems to improve scalability, performance, and reliability. Design and evolve distributed systems operating at million-client scale. Find weak points early ...

Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
deeply technically credible. You will not be expected to write most of the code, but you should be able to understand the systems your engineers operate, challenge architectural decisions around payment rails and cryptographic auth, ask the right questions when something is going wrong, and step into a technical … with direct reports. Your success will be measured by the quality and output of the team you build, the engineers you develop, and the systems and products they deliver. This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed. ...

Senior Platform Architect - UK

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
must reside in the United Kingdom, with a preference for London 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python Experience … building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials Self-motivated with the ability ...

Senior Platform Architect - UK

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
must reside in the United Kingdom, with a preference for London 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python Experience … building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials Self-motivated with the ability ...

Senior Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60000 - £85000/annum 25 days holiday
goal. It is essential to keeping a business running. This is an opportunity to work on a highly available integration platform that connects eCommerce systems with warehouse operations, processing orders, stock movements and shipments in real time. The platform operates at 99.999% availability and has been tested to handle … office (Tuesday and Thursday) Permanent The opportunity You will join a collaborative engineering team responsible for designing, developing and operating a platform built around distributed services. The role is approximately 75% backend development, working primarily with Node.js and TypeScript, alongside some React frontend development. You will have genuine ownership ...

Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
technology stack, including the engineering and customisation of Braze, the platform we use for customer engagement. The mandate is modernisation and reliability: re-architecting systems that have grown very quickly and making them dependable at a scale of more than 20 million users. This is a platform engineering … engineering organisation through other engineering leaders, rather than running a single team. You have proven platform engineering experience at scale — building and running complex distributed systems, not feature delivery alone. You have navigated legacy migrations and re-architecture projects at 20M+ user scale. You have strong backend engineering ...

Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Location
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
this role, you will contribute to scalable, resilient and secure platform solutions that support services used across the organisation. Working with cloud‐native technologies, distributed systems and event‐driven architectures, you will help improve streaming capabilities used by a wide range of teams and business areas. This … scale Confluent Kafka platforms supporting enterprise workloads across cloud, on‐premise and hybrid environments, including multi‐cluster, multi‐region and highly available deployments. Applying distributed systems knowledge, event‐driven architecture practices and Confluent Platform technologies, including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cluster Linking and ksqlDB, to deliver reliable, scalable ...

Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure - Kafka

Location
United Kingdom
structured SQL engines (similar to Amazon RDS approach). We are facing the interesting problem of fault-tolerant mission-critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering managed data platforms. We are looking for candidates from junior to senior level with … interests, experience and willingness to learn around Big Data technologies, such as distributed event-stores (Kafka) and parallel computing frameworks (Spark). Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organisations. Location: This role ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
solutions for them. You will work directly with strategic clients to design and implement scalable technical integrations, define production-ready workflows, and ensure AI systems transition from experimentation to reliable deployment. This is a hands-on engineering role with strong product and client-facing responsibilities. Location & Travel: Preferred location … qualified candidates Frequent travel to client sites may be required (depending on client needs) Responsibilities: AI Deployment Architecture: Design and implement integrations between client systems and CloudFactory’s platform Architect scalable agentic AI & human-in-the-loop workflows Define data ingestion, transformation, and feedback loops Evaluate system bottlenecks (latency ...

Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure (Remote)

Hiring Organisation
CrowdStrike
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count … Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Salt or similar solutions)Experience in Provisioning & Orchestration (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Temporal or similar solutions)Experience with immutable architecture and distributed systems design. Experience in software development, design patterns, data structures and algorithms ( Python or Go )Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments. ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
days per week) Team: Engineering Compensation: Top of market. Competitive base + OTE The role Take what you already know about building reliable systems, or about infrastructure that has to work at scale, into a category-defining company. A fast track to owning the backend that powers decisions … world's leading PE firms. You'll build and own the services, pipelines, and infrastructure that sit underneath our AI platform - the systems that ingest documents, process financial data, and make everything downstream possible. Whether you've built high-throughput data pipelines, designed distributed systems that ...

RJ Rust Software Engineer - Trading Systems Rust Jobs · London posted 11 months ago

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
/Jump for trading, etc.)* Experience as a start-up founder or very early stage employee* Deep technical domain expertise with low-level/distributed systems/low-latency programmingResponsibilities:* Enhance our low-latency trading infrastructure* Optimize core engine performance and network infrastructure* Develop new features focused … transaction efficiency and advanced trading systemsPreferred Skills & Qualifications:* In production experience using Rust* Worked on latency-sensitive systems/algorithms/multi-threaded code/scalable distributed systems* Understanding of the transaction supply chain/proposer-builder separation (PBS)* Knowledge of Ethereum/EVM and blockchain fundamentalsExperience ...

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer (Python, Linux, VMware ESXi, Ansible, cloud) | Glasgow, UK | 12 Months Contract | AS

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
physical and virtual server infrastructure. The group evaluates, certifies, integrates, and supports a broad range of infrastructure technologies, including hardware platforms, hypervisors, Linux operating systems, system configuration tooling, critical infrastructure services, automation platforms, load-balancing, high availability solutions, and virtualization management technologies. We are a key part … looking for a self-starter who can operate effectively in a complex engineering environment. The successful candidate will need to understand complex distributed systems, assess the broader impact of security changes, design robust remediation approaches, and produce stable, maintainable, and future-proof secure code. They will also ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Maxwell Bond
Location
St Helens, St. Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £100000/annum
data engineers. Work with modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Tackle interesting challenges around large-scale data, distributed systems and real-time processing. Who are we looking for? This could suit an established Principal or Staff Engineer, Technical Architect, or an experienced … Developer ready to step up. You'll ideally bring: Strong C#, .NET and Azure experience. Experience designing scalable, data-intensive systems. Knowledge of microservices, distributed systems and event-driven architecture. Exposure to Python and data engineering. Experience leading technical decisions and using AI coding agents. Experience with ...

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting | UK | Remote

Location
United Kingdom
quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on:- Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts- Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus … based alerts- Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged ...

Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
what we build, not just how. Act as a coach and mentor to our engineering teams, providing the technical leadership needed to solve complex distributed systems challenges in Go. Proactively identify opportunities and take initiative to elevate the engineering standards within the pillar, fostering a culture of continuous … Technical leadership: setting direction, breaking down complex problems, influencing across teams. Extensive, hands-on experience in building, operating and scaling complex, cloud-based distributed systems (we use mainly AWS). Excellent programming skills in Go (Golang), with a deep understanding of concurrent, memory-efficient, and low-latency backend ...

Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation & Decisioning Platform Software engineering Amsterdam

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
what we build, not just how. Act as a coach and mentor to our engineering teams, providing the technical leadership needed to solve complex distributed systems challenges in Go. Proactively identify opportunities and take initiative to elevate the engineering standards within the pillar, fostering a culture of continuous … Technical leadership: setting direction, breaking down complex problems, influencing across teams. Extensive, hands-on experience in building, operating and scaling complex, cloud-based distributed systems (we use mainly AWS). Excellent programming skills in Go (Golang), with a deep understanding of concurrent, memory-efficient, and low-latency backend ...

Senior Java Developer: Kafka & Distributed Systems

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
create a scalable backbone for rapid growth. You will solve real-world problems in small, agile, cross-functional teams, focusing on large-scale distributed systems and robust messaging architectures. Visa sponsorship is not offered. #J-18808-Ljbffr ...

Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Responsibilities Define and develop architecture strategies, technical roadmaps and solution designs across a portfolio of products Lead architectural decisions across cloud-based applications, distributed systems and integration platforms Design scalable, resilient solutions using modern technologies and architectural patterns Work closely with product owners, engineering teams and senior stakeholders … architecture role Strong knowledge of AWS and modern cloud-based architecture Experience across event-driven architecture, microservices, APIs and enterprise integration Good understanding of distributed systems, application architecture and data integration Understanding of data architecture and AI/ML technologies, including how modern architecture can support AI adoption ...

Distributed Systems Testing Engineering Manager

Location
United Kingdom
Canonical Ltd. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Distributed Systems Testing to lead a team responsible for the quality engineering platform. You will drive testing infrastructure, automation, and validation across Canonical's cloud portfolio, enabling engineers to ship software confidently in diverse environments. You will mentor engineers, shape ...

Backend Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
narrowly scoped feature role. This is for someone who can: Build and maintain high-performance backend services that sit in critical execution paths Build systems that handle request/response flows, enforcement logic, and real-time decisioning Work with authentication and authorisation protocols (e.g. OAuth) to securely manage identity … access Develop integrations with external systems, including identity providers and third-party platforms Write efficient, reliable code that performs under load and supports low-latency requirements Contribute to system design across multiple parts of the platform as the product evolves Help ensure security, correctness, and observability are built into ...

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Space Agency, the UKs Department of Science and Technology (DSIT) and the UK Ministry of Defence. About the job As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in the specification, design, integration, and test of our Optical Ground Stations and other products. This role involves working … closely with internal engineering teams, external partners, and customers to ensure the systems support our operational needs and enables smooth integration with partner systems. You will be responsible for defining system and sub-system requirements, designing architecture, ensuring robust integration, and supporting the deployment and maintenance of ground stations. ...