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Full Stack Engineer ( AI ) TLNT1 NI

Hiring Organisation
Ocho
Location
Belfast, UK
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 ...

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 ...

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
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, 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 ...

Database Research Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Agent-Native Database Systems Research/Engineer Location: Edinburgh, UK | Full-time A leading deep-tech research and engineering organisation is looking for Researchers and Engineers to work on next-generation database and AI data infrastructure, with a particular focus on agent-native data management, database kernels, query processing … storage engines, distributed systems, and AI workloads . This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of database systems, AI, cloud infrastructure, and hardware acceleration , combining research with hands-on system design, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance optimisation. You’ll tackle open-ended technical problems around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staff Core Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Appcast
Location
Remote, UK
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Site Reliability Engineer, K8s (Remote International)

Hiring Organisation
Appcast
Location
Remote, UK
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...