1 to 25 of 1,654 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer (Sports betting) Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London | Python | Java | GCP | Real-Time Distributed Systems Build systems where performance really matters. If you're a Senior Software Engineer who gets excited by high-performance systems, distributed architecture … role where you'll simply be maintaining an existing code-base. You'll be solving complex engineering problems, shaping architecture and working on systems where performance, scalability and reliability genuinely matter. You'll have significant technical ownership, influence over engineering decisions and the opportunity to work alongside a highly ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
Senior Software Engineer (Sports betting) Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London | Python | Java | GCP | Real-Time Distributed Systems Build systems where performance really matters. If you're a Senior Software Engineer who gets excited by high-performance systems, distributed architecture … role where you'll simply be maintaining an existing code-base. You'll be solving complex engineering problems, shaping architecture and working on systems where performance, scalability and reliability genuinely matter. You'll have significant technical ownership, influence over engineering decisions and the opportunity to work alongside a highly ...

Lead Software Engineer - Java, Payments

Hiring Organisation
JP Morgan Chase
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
technical contributor, you are responsible for designing and delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas, supporting high-volume payment initiation platforms and complex distributed systems that are essential to the firm’s business objectives.This role requires deep engineering expertise in building and operating production systems at scale, with strong emphasis on distributed systems, low-latency processing, high availability, resiliency, recoverability, observability, and operational excellence.Job Responsibilities: Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down complex technical ...

Lead Software Engineer - Java, Payments

Location
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
technical contributor, you are responsible for designing and delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas, supporting high-volume payment initiation platforms and complex distributed systems that are essential to the firm’s business objectives. This role requires deep engineering expertise in building and operating production systems at scale, with strong emphasis on distributed systems, low-latency processing, high availability, resiliency, recoverability, observability, and operational excellence . Job Responsibilities: Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down ...

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 ...

Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Autodesk
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Construction (AEC) Data organization is seeking an experienced Software Architect to join the AEC Data team and define the cloud-native services and distributed-systems architecture that power the AEC Data Model (AECDM) and the many services around it. Data is the domain, but the role is fundamentally … cloud and services architecture — APIs, service contracts, integrations, distributed-systems design, and the connected data model that ties them together — spanning multiple teams. It is not a data-warehouse or analytics-specialist role. The AEC Data organization is building the foundational data infrastructure behind Autodesk's vision ...

Senior Software Engineer – Messaging & Async Platform Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Deel
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that … focused on building and scaling our messaging and asynchronous communication platform.This role is ideal for someone who has strong experience designing, operating, and improving distributed systems that power event-driven architectures. You will work on the core infrastructure that enables reliable communication between services, supports high-throughput workloads ...

Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure | OpenAI Careers Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure Applied AI Infrastructure - London, UK 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 … 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 ...

Staff Core Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
n8n
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe … open-source community can build confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments.Working across our platform teams, you’ll bring architectural coherence to the systems they jointly own and help us make the right long-term technical decisions as n8n scales:Architectural direction across Core PlatformDrive architecture across ...

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 ...

Lead Engineer, Trading Platform Engineering

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
high-performance, mission-critical foundation that powers our trading activities. Operating at the intersection of software and hardware, the team builds low-latency systems that demand expert-level proficiency in Linux kernel internals, networking pipelines, and distributed systems architecture. The team focuses on architectural excellence, reliability, determinism … relentless elimination of tail latency.**What You’ll Do*** High-Performance Service Development: Design, build, and optimize high-performance systems using C and Java.* Kernel & User Space Engineering: Engineer performance-critical components across user space and kernel interfaces, focusing on memory, scheduling, I/O, and networking paths.* Advanced ...

Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Oracle Corporation
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
continuously improve the reliability and scalability of OCI services.The ideal candidate has a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure, storage, or database systems and has progressed into an engineering management role while maintaining strong technical depth. You should be comfortable leading experienced engineers, challenging technical assumptions, reviewing … designs, and helping teams make sound engineering decisions in complex distributed environments.You will play a key role in defining how the team operates, prioritizing reliability initiatives, managing operational risk, and ensuring that engineering investments address the most important reliability and customer-impacting problems. While this is a management role ...

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, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
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 ...

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
Salary
£ 70 K
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: bare … systems.SQL Server 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 Software Engineer II - Wise for Enterprise

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
money.We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Wise for Banks team and help shape the technical direction of the systems powering Wise’s global payment network. In this role, you’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and partnerships by driving the architecture … seamlessly to Wise.With deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, you’ll lead the design of highly available services and event-driven systems that power partner integrations and financial flows at scale. You’ll influence architecture across Wise’s ecosystem of 700+ microservices, helping teams make sound ...

Site Reliability Engineer, K8s (Remote International)

Hiring Organisation
PulsePoint
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
infrastructure - from bare-metal hardware and networking to Kubernetes, observability and developer experience.The environment supports large-scale Kubernetes workloads, multi-petabyte data systems and business-critical services used across multiple engineering organizations.We're looking for an experienced engineer to help shape its next stage of growth.This is a hands … role focused on architecture, reliability, automation and operational excellence. You will work on complex distributed systems, drive platform improvements and help shape the technical direction of infrastructure across the company.What you'll work onYou'll help design, build and operate the Kubernetes platform used across PulsePoint.Examples of challenges ...

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 ...

Engineering Manager - Data Platform (Hybrid, GBR)

Hiring Organisation
CrowdStrike
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
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 ...

Backend Developer Golang Node Pub / Sub

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 100 K
/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 across ...

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 ...