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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 ...

Staff Platform Engineer - AI Native SaaS Platform

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Platform | 10x ARR Since Last Year Remote-first UK with hybrid London office option Up to £170,000 + equity Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, distributed systems Staff Platform Engineer - We're working with a rapidly scaling AI-native SaaS company who raised an impressive Series B round … match the ambition of their product and customers. The product is real-time, data-rich and AI-native, creating complex engineering challenges across distributed systems, reliability, infrastructure, tooling and developer experience. As they continue to scale their Engineering team, they are now looking for a Staff Platform Engineer ...

AI System Researcher

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree inComputer Science,Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge ...

Software Engineer, Platform Systems

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
About the Team The Platform Systems team at OpenAI operates at the intersection of cutting‐edge AI and large‐scale distributed systems. We build the engineering and research infrastructure required to train OpenAI’s flagship models on some of the world’s largest, custom‐built supercomputers. Our team … core model training software and works deep in the stack – spanning collective communication, compute efficiency, parallelism strategies, fault tolerance, failure detection, and observability. The systems we build are foundational to OpenAI’s research velocity, enabling reliable, efficient training at frontier scale. We collaborate closely with researchers across the organization ...

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
organization, which supports multiple high-impact teams. Depending on your interests and experience, you could work on one of several focus areas—including Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity or Cloud Infrastructure. About the Role All teams are deeply collaborative, work on mission-critical services … responsible for building distributed, scalable infrastructure to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, setting the technical strategy that supports cutting-edge research and product development. This ...

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. ...

AI Platform Support Engineer (EMEA)

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 Lightning AI is looking to hire AIPlatform Support ...

Principal Platform Software Engineer (Database Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle Corporation
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
managed database services for mission-critical OCI workloads, and dedicated cloud environments. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems experience to help design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and automated database services. You will work on large-scale distributed systems … Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services that power mission-critical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads. Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems in order to manage databases across global cloud regions. Develop automation for database provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery ...

Backend Software Engineer – Infrastructure, Foundations

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
performant search and indexing ecosystem for complex granularly permissioned data Contribute to open-source data processing libraries and integrate innovations for performance gains Build distributed systems powering large-scale compute workloads and efficiently schedule hundreds of thousands of containers hourly Design architecture and opinionated APIs that guide application … developers Implement tracing and performance observability in high-scale distributed microservice architectures Build reliable, performant, and scalable systems for storage, authentication, and asset serving Automate deployment, management, and operations of distributed systems including Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and more Develop foundational capabilities for Palantir Foundry and Gotham ...

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 ...

Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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 ...

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 ...

Senior Data & MLOps Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
covers various aspects of data processing and analysis, including data intake, deriving meaningful metrics, identifying unusual patterns, predicting potential issues, finding slow processes in distributed systems, and using automated analysis to determine causes. We collaborate closely with internal teams like Fleet, Infrastructure, and AI Platform to enhance system … real-time service from periodic processing, and dynamic resource management based on system load and data frequency. You will architect and deploy these scalable distributed services using orchestration technologies. Key Responsibilities Design and implement scalable data ingestion pipelines. Build feature processing and baseline computation systems. Productionize models for prediction ...

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 ...

Software Engineer, Real-Time

Location
Nottingham, 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 ...

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 ...

Software Development Engineer, AWS S3

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
working directly with customers? Join our team building high-performance data access solutions that power critical workloads across AWS. We're creating open source systems software that enables applications to achieve breakthrough throughput when accessing Amazon S3, working across multiple programming languages including Rust, and diving deep into file … orchestration. In this role, you'll tackle challenging problems with limited data, transforming ambiguity into elegant solutions. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, systems programming, and customer needs—designing software that handles massive scale while maintaining exceptional performance. Your technical depth and problem-solving ...

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 ...

Senior Platform Engineer - AI Native SaaS Platform

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
SaaS Platform | 10x ARR Since Last Year Remote-first UK with hybrid London office option Up to £125,000 + equity Golang | GCP | Kubernetes | Distributed Systems Senior Platform Engineer - We're working with a rapidly scaling AI-native SaaS company who raised an impressive Series B round … match the ambition of their product and customers. The product is real-time, data-rich and AI-native, creating complex engineering challenges across distributed systems, reliability, infrastructure, tooling and developer experience. As they continue to scale their Engineering team, they are now looking for a Senior Platform Engineer ...

Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
complex, the challenge is no longer simply providing compute. We need to make heterogeneous workloads easier to execute, observe, reproduce, and move across different systems without hiding the capabilities or semantics of the infrastructure underneath them. About the role: We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems to help design and build this layer. This is a hands-on systems engineering role at the intersection of distributed systems, runtimes, workflow execution, programming language concepts, and large-scale compute infrastructure. You’ll work on the foundations that allow complex workloads to move from ...

AI Native Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/day 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 ...

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Software

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 ...

Backend Developer Golang Node Pub / Sub

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
/Software Engineer (Go/Node Pub/Sub) Remote/Hybrid to 120k + EquityAre you an experienced Backend Developer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges? You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology company whose messaging … Developer, you'll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company's real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you'll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale. You'll contribute ...