1 to 25 of 993 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Full Stack Engineer ( AI )

Hiring Organisation
Ocho
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
100000.0
stack role within a rapidly scaling US technology business Genuine end-to-end ownership across React, TypeScript, Python and AWS Cloud-native, event-driven distributed systems operating at meaningful scale Fully remote, UK-based £80,000 to £100,000 plus a strong benefits package About Our Client … environment, contributing to architectural decisions rather than consuming them. The core environment is React, TypeScript, Python and AWS, alongside cloud-native, event-driven and distributed systems. The team is also actively exploring how AI-assisted development tools improve the way software is designed, built and maintained, which makes this ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ocho
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
100000.0
role at a fast growing AI powered Agentic Test Automation Platform trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises Go and Java across high performance, cloud native distributed systems on GCP, Docker and Kubernetes Own architecture decisions and mentor engineers - not just execute tickets Fully remote, Northern Ireland based Salary … next sprint. It is a role where your technical judgement shapes the product. The career value is clear. You will be working on distributed systems problems at serious scale, in Go and Java, on a cloud native GCP infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes. You will have influence beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Services

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
group of senior engineers building the core platform that powers UiPath's large‐scale AI and Document Understanding products. Our world is one of distributed systems, high‐throughput model serving, and complex asynchronous training workflows. We're looking for a systems‐level engineer who wants to work … primarily in Python. If you're intrigued by the challenges of the software/hardware interface, OS‐level optimization, and building robust, multi‐tenant distributed systems, you'll fit right in What you'll do at UiPath Design, build, and operate the core MLS platform. This includes ...

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

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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 … generation. What You'll Do: Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products Leverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale Brainstorm, define and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams ...

Systems Security Research Engineer

Location
West of England, England, United Kingdom
Systems Security Research Engineer Description - The HP Security Lab is looking to add your talent and experience as a Security Researcher to our team working on endpoint security, taking both a ‘silicon to cloud’ and a ‘factory to end of life’ approach to raising the bar in device security … where you’ll work on technical challenges from co-designing hardware and firmware for cyber resilience and enhanced supply chain security, through to designing distributed systems security across cloud, edge, and endpoint devices. You’ll also collaborate with business R&D teams to ensure business impact drives ...

Software Engineer – Backend

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
control, automation, and intelligent supportability across large-scale hybrid (OnPrem + cloud) environments. You will design and develop highly scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems that enable centralized orchestration, lifecycle management, policy enforcement, and integration with external systems. This role also involves enhancing API frameworks, improving supportability, and embedding … foundational services that operate reliably at petabyte scale and support mission-critical AI/data workloads. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable, high-performance distributed backend services powering the platform control plane. Develop APIs for centralized management of storage and compute across multi-region hybrid (OnPrem + cloud) environments. ...

Backend Engineer 1861

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
modern platform that enables secure enterprise integrations, AI agent workflows, knowledge access and business process automation . You will be working across backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native technologies and event-driven architecture, collaborating closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Enterprise Architects and Security teams. The Role … business stakeholders What We're Looking For We're interested in engineers with strong backend development experience and a background in building enterprise-scale, distributed and highly available platforms . Strong experience in several of the following would be highly beneficial: Java, Python or Node.js REST APIs and microservices ...

Backend Engineer

Location
West of England, England, United Kingdom
modern platform that enables secure enterprise integrations, AI agent workflows, knowledge access and business process automation . You will be working across backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native technologies and event-driven architecture, collaborating closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Enterprise Architects and Security teams. The Role … business stakeholders What We're Looking For We're interested in engineers with strong backend development experience and a background in building enterprise-scale, distributed and highly available platforms . Strong experience in several of the following would be highly beneficial: Java, Python or Node.js REST APIs and microservices ...