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Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
European Tech Recruit
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Infrastructure Research Engineer – AI & Distributed Systems A global telecommunications and technology leader is hiring contract System Research Engineers to join an advanced Research & Development lab in Edinburgh. Positioned at the intersection of advanced research and practical engineering, this team translates cutting-edge innovations into real-world … rapidly build and evaluate proof-of-concept prototypes, validating research ideas in real-world environments. Performance Optimization: Perform detailed profiling and optimization of operating systems and large-scale distributed systems across heterogeneous hardware platforms (e.g., CPU, NPU). Research Publications: Turn research findings and innovative contributions into ...

AI System Researcher

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge of distributed ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
seeking an experienced Principal Platform Engineer to join a highly skilled infrastructure engineering team responsible for the design, deployment and operation of mission-critical distributed platforms that power some of the organisation's most important services. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on distributed systems … infrastructure, platform engineering and large-scale data platforms . The successful candidate will be a technical leader with deep expertise in AWS, Terraform and distributed persistence technologies, capable of influencing architecture decisions while remaining close to implementation and operational ownership. You will play a key role in building resilient ...

Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. ...

Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
present data from over 30 global distribution sites Develop applications and data-processing logic to identify performance issues, service degradation and hotspots across distributed systems Contribute to telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform and route metrics, logs and traces into a common observability layer Deliver synthetic monitoring capabilities measuring … across environments Work with engineering squads to add and improve instrumentation across Development, Test, PPE and Production environments Collaborate with expert engineers on observability, distributed systems, cloud-native software and real-time data platforms Contribute ideas and improvements as the Real-Time observability platform evolves Requirements Hands ...

Senior Software Engineer — Infra Agent Systems UK Together AI London

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
About the Role Together AI runs one of the largest GPU fleets in the world. The Infra Agent Systems team builds the software systems that power and automate that infrastructure. We develop production AI agents that diagnose hardware failures, investigate incidents, correlate signals across the fleet, and automate … operational workflows. Alongside these agents, we build the platform they run on, including knowledge graphs, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, and developer tooling. You’ll work across two areas: Infrastructure Agent Systems — Build production AI agents that help operate our GPU fleet by diagnosing failures, investigating incidents, gathering evidence ...

Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Permutable, we build real-time AI systems that transform large volumes of global news, market and proprietary data into market intelligence for financial institutions. We are moving towards a more real-time, event-driven and agent-driven architecture. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design … build the backend services, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure behind it. This is a hands‐on software engineering role with end‐to‐end production ownership. You will work directly with our founder and engineering team and have significant influence over how our next generation of technology is designed ...

Data Platform Infra Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
help us make the world a better place.As an SRE on our team, you'll own the reliability, performance, and scale of the distributed storage and data platform systems that power Apple's services. You'll debug replication and consensus failures, tune systems at petabyte scale … firmly believe in ownership, with software engineers accountable for the code they write. Description The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organisation builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services — iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. Our team builds and operates the data platform infrastructure behind them, keeping petabyte ...

Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Palantir Technologies
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin … solving real-world problems and empowering both developers and end-users to work optimally. If you're motivated to develop reliable, performant, and scalable systems, and to design robust APIs and primitives, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the people ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WeDo Technology Solutions Limited
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£125,000 - £145,000 per annum
journey. The foundations are in place, customers are using the technology, and the engineering team is now scaling both the platform and the systems behind it. They're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to be close to the product, customers and technical decisions rather than owning … small component within a much larger organisation. You'll be joining a highly technical engineering team and working on problems across AI, distributed systems, enterprise data and performance engineering. This is a hands on role with genuine ownership. You'll help determine how the platform evolves as usage ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WeDoTech
Location
London, Camden Area, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£125000 - £145000/annum
journey. The foundations are in place, customers are using the technology, and the engineering team is now scaling both the platform and the systems behind it. They're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to be close to the product, customers and technical decisions rather than owning … small component within a much larger organisation. You'll be joining a highly technical engineering team and working on problems across AI, distributed systems, enterprise data and performance engineering. This is a hands on role with genuine ownership. You'll help determine how the platform evolves as usage ...

Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
quickly market data reaches customers. You will work with experienced engineers to develop production software, measure performance and enable observability of a globally distributed platform. Prior market-data or observability experience is not required; we are looking for strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity and a willingness to learn. ROLE SUMMARY … hands‐on development role for an engineer at an early stage of their career who wants to build experience in mission‐critical distributed systems, observability, cloud‐native engineering and real‐time financial technology. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING Build and improve software components that aggregate, correlate and present ...

Front Office Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Income Risk System)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
derivatives, with focus on options and exotics. This is a highly visible front-office engineering role that combines deep business engagement with large-scale distributed systems engineering. In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients … understand derivatives products, risk measures and trading processes sufficiently to challenge requirements, reason about results and help shape practical business solutions. Develop large-scale distributed systems on one of the world's largest Scala codebases, leveraging graph-computing technology, distributed caching, compute grids and high-performance data ...

Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)

Hiring Organisation
PulsePoint
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law. Build streaming and storage systems at PulsePointPulsePoint processes billions of events daily through Kafka, Hadoop HDFS and Ceph. Our Data Platform team maintains these systems across hybrid infrastructure … backup and recovery pipelines, basic cluster support. Data team tooling with self-service capabilities and observability. TechnologyApache Kafka for messaging layerHadoop and Ceph as distributed storage layerSQL Server backup and recoveryTerraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD for operational automationPrometheus, Grafana, Icinga and PagerDuty as observability layerBare-metal servers and hybrid cloud ...

Senior Rust Software Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
hire a Senior Rust Software Engineer to join their Core Trading Engineering team.This is an opportunity to build low-latency, high-performance trading systems using Rust in one of the most technically challenging engineering environments. You'll work alongside experienced software engineers and quantitative teams to develop the distributed systems that power global electronic trading. Key Responsibilities Design, build and optimise high-performance Rust applications Develop low-latency trading infrastructure and backend services Build scalable distributed systems running in Linux environments Work closely with quantitative developers and trading teams to deliver business-critical software Drive ...

AI Native Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
500/day (Outside IR35)
Native Systems Engineer 6 Month Contract London (Hybrid) £500/day (Outside IR35) AI Native Systems Engineer needed for a 6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid). Start ASAP ideally September 2026. Hybrid Working - 2-3 days/week remote (WFH) + 2-3 days/…/day (Outside IR35). Working with a global IT Consultancy supporting the client's transition towards delivery models utilising AI agents to streamline systems software + operations: AI Native Systems Engineer is a technical leadership role designing AI-enabled, complex cloud-native + data-intensive systems ...

Engineering Manager - Data Platform (Hybrid, GBR)

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 … mission to create a hyper scale data lake, which helps find bad actors and stop breaches. The team builds and operates systems to centralize all of the data the falcon platform collects, making it easy for internal and external customers to transform and access the data for analytics, machine ...

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
SMOs of terrestrial mobile network operators for TN-NTN coordination. First and foremost, this is a software engineering role. You will design and build distributed systems in a modern, cloud-native codebase, working side by side with our 3GPP/NTN solution architects who own the standards … systems expertise. Engineers on the team routinely pick up the telecom domain as they go, therefore deep prior knowledge of it is a genuine advantage, not a prerequisite. Key Responsibilities: Develop and maintain the Spacetime platform using C++, Golang, Java, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Build scalable, distributed systems ...

Golang Developer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
West Malling, Kent, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
Workforce Safety Platform (Kings Hill, Kent) KEY POINTS * Full time, hybrid, 2 days a week onsite in Kings Hill, West Malling * Go and distributed systems on AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform * Real device level engineering, GNSS, GPS and RTK positioning over binary protocols * Geospatial processing at volume across tens … geospatial output that has to be accurate and has to be quick. Over time you become the subject matter expert on the Go and distributed systems side of the business. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Build and maintain Go services across the platform * Work on IoT device integration and binary protocol ...

Senior Backend Engineer - Building the future of sports technology! (Core Data/ Backend team)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
This is your chance to join the small, senior engineering team responsible for the data engine that powers all of it. Designing the APIs, distributed systems and large-scale pipelines that connect player identities, game metadata and context across an entire global product suite. What you'll actually … doing This is a deeply backend-focused role with real ownership from day one. You'll be: Designing and evolving the APIs and distributed systems that underpin a platform processing data at genuinely large scale Tackling hard, unglamorous, genuinely interesting engineering problems (entity resolution, data consistency, scalability, platform ...

Technology Director – Digital Assets & Distributed Systems

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
platform for digital securities and tokenised assets. You will act as the senior technical authority across engineering, product, and senior stakeholders — shaping decisions across distributed systems, DLT platforms, and digital asset models within a regulated environment. This is a new platform build rather than a legacy transformation, with … Shape the design of tokenised asset and digital cash solutions Act as the senior technical authority across engineering, product, and senior stakeholders Translate complex distributed systems concepts into clear, business‐relevant decisions We're looking for someone who Brings deep expertise in distributed systems ...

Principal Architect – Robotics & Hardware Abstraction

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
improve quality of life and extend the reach of humanity. Our newly opened Chemifarm facility in Glasgow operates a growing fleet of advanced robotic systems that automate synthesis, optimisation, and library generation. As we scale up to globally distributed facilities, we are undertaking a foundational transformation … within the Office of the CTO, you will act as the architectural bridge between Hardware Engineering and Software Engineering, shaping how our robots, control systems, and cloud services work together as a coherent whole. Your mission is to define a robust Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that enables our universal ...

Staff Software Engineer, Inference

Hiring Organisation
Humanloop
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the roleOur Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide. We bring Claude to life by serving our models via the industry's largest compute-agnostic … inference deployments. We are responsible for the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators. Inference systems are highly performance sensitive distributed systems. Inference serves hundreds of thousands of customers every day, and the size & span of the inference fleet requires sophisticated ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
+ 20% Flexible Benefits Package Are you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the future of our platform engineering capability. This is an opportunity … lead complex engineering initiatives, define technical strategy, and act as a subject matter expert across AWS infrastructure, distributed databases, Terraform and cloud-native platform services. You'll work closely with architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to design resilient, scalable and secure platform solutions while mentoring engineers and driving engineering ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £150,000 per annum, Inc benefits
+ 20% Flexible Benefits Package Are you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the future of our platform engineering capability. This is an opportunity … lead complex engineering initiatives, define technical strategy, and act as a subject matter expert across AWS infrastructure, distributed databases, Terraform and cloud-native platform services. You'll work closely with architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to design resilient, scalable and secure platform solutions while mentoring engineers and driving engineering ...