1 to 25 of 451 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

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, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer - Messaging & Async Platform Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Deel
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

Senior Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
develop secure, cloud-native platforms supporting some of the UK's most sensitive National Security programmes. You'll work across large-scale data ingestion, distributed systems, analyst tooling and secure microservices, solving complex engineering challenges in highly regulated environments. What you'll be building Java services and Apache … NiFi data pipelines that ingest, enrich and process large-scale mission data Secure Spring Boot microservices deployed on OpenShift and Kubernetes Event-driven distributed systems using message brokers to connect services, data stores and processing pipelines Modern JavaScript applications and REST APIs that enable analysts to search, visualise ...

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 ...

Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)

Hiring Organisation
PulsePoint
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, 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: 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 ...

Test Automation Engineer - Distributed, Networking, Security

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Nationwide, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£50000 - £70000/annum Benefits
Test Automation Engineer - Distributed Systems & Networking £50,000 - £70,000 DOE + Benefits Fully Remote (UK) About the Company This is a fantastic opportunity to join a pioneering technology business operating at the forefront of secure communications and connectivity. Our client develops innovative software solutions for organisations operating … exciting time to join. The Opportunity We're looking for a Test Automation Engineer to help build and enhance automated testing capability across complex distributed systems. This role goes far beyond writing automated tests. You'll develop frameworks, tooling and infrastructure that validate software operating across cloud services, networks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rust Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lawrence Harvey Group
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
currently working with an early-stage infrastructure company building high-performance distributed systems, with Rust at the core of the stack, who are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the design, build, and scale of a genuinely differentiated systems architecture.This is a pivotal role reporting … building a new approach to real-time data and system infrastructure, designed to remove traditional dependencies on external services through a more tightly integrated, systems-native architecture.You'll remain hands-on technically while driving engineering standards, roadmap execution, and team growth.This is a rare opportunity to join ...

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 ...

Senior II Product Engineer

Hiring Organisation
9fin
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.We're looking for a Senior II Product Engineer to take broad technical ownership of the backend systems powering 9fin's platform.You will sit between our Senior and Staff engineering tracks. You will own meaningful systems end to end, lead multi sprint … Data, and our financial and legal domain experts.This role suits someone who has already grown beyond a typical senior remit. You enjoy diving into distributed systems problems, and you have firsthand experience scaling services under real production load.What you'll doOwn the design and delivery of significant backend ...

Sr. Software Engineer - Surface Engineering (Hybrid)

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 … looking for a Sr. Cloud Software Engineer to join our growing Surface Engineering Team. Our new colleague will be responsible for building globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystems using Golang & Python. Prior experience with Golang or Python is not required, but will be helpful.About the team ...

Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Detection (Hybrid, London)

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 … time detection generation.What You'll Do:Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike productsLeverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scaleBrainstorm, define and build collaboratively with members across multiple teamsObsess about ...

Lead Developer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
mentoring developers and helping define engineering standards across multiple cloud-native products. If you're passionate about modern software engineering and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, this is the type of role that doesn't come around often. The Opportunity You'll work within … available, cloud-native SaaS applications used at significant scale. Working alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers, you'll help deliver resilient distributed systems built around microservices, event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices. This is not a people-management role disguised as leadership. ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
South West London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £120,000 per annum
Senior Python Software Engineer Up to £120,000 London | Python | Java | Cloud | Real-Time Distributed Systems | Bonus & Excellent Benefits Are you an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges in high-performance, real-time environments? We're partnering with an innovative technology business that's investing … team developing highly available, cloud-native platforms that process large volumes of real-time data. This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging systems where performance, scalability and reliability are critical. You'll have the chance to influence architecture, contribute to technical decision-making and work alongside talented ...

Sr. Software Engineer, Backend/Cloud (Hybrid, London)

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 … customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.About the Role:Does building systems that help security analysts close a critical incident before it becomes a breach excite you? Does correlating and analyzing data at trillions-of-events ...

Python Developer SQL - Market Data

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Python Developer you will join a growing team building a modern medallion architecture data platform, working across everything from data engineering and distributed systems to infrastructure and frontend. This is a hands-on role in a small, collaborative team where you'll have real ownership and impact. Your … role: Design and build data platform components using Python Develop and optimise ETL pipelines, Data Lakes/Lakehouses and distributed systems Improve infrastructure, observability and CI/CD practices Maintain and evolve existing systems (microservices, ETL, Excel add-ins) Support platform operations, ensuring reliability and performance Location ...

Junior SRE

Hiring Organisation
SQUAREPOINT CAPITAL
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Position Overview:This is a Full‐time Junior Software Engineering position for candidates early in their career who are interested in infrastructure, systems, and machine learning platforms at scale.As a Junior Engineer, you will contribute to production ML/HPC infrastructure, working alongside experienced engineers and quantitative researchers. … will gradually take ownership of components and features, learn how large‐scale systems are designed and operated in practice, and contribute production‐quality code that directly supports research and trading workloads.This role is designed to offer strong mentorship while encouraging increasing autonomy and technical ownership over time.As part ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OB Collective
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer – Scala, Distributed Systems Location: UK, remote-first with occasional onsite. UK-based, UK data handling only. Engagement: Contract, outside IR35. Rate: circa £700/day depending on experience. Clearance: Current, portable NPPV3 is essential (SC alongside is a strong plus). We can only consider … small delivery team, stay close to the code, and work directly with operational users and partner engineers to ground the build in how systems are actually used. What you'll do Own the technical design and delivery of a data-pipeline/provenance engagement Build ingestion, transformation and lineage ...

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Open LMS) UK, Remote

Hiring Organisation
Learning Technologies Group
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
hosting platform on AWS. Our platform dynamically provisions, manages, and scales hundreds of Moodle LMS instances for education clients — powered by custom orchestration tooling, distributed service discovery, and infrastructure as code.This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You'll work across the full stack — from Terraform modules and Puppet … Python automation and observability pipelines. The platform is not containerised — there is no Kubernetes here — so we're looking for someone who understands Linux systems deeply and can reason about distributed systems problems from first principles.You'll have real ownership and influence over the platform's architecture ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...