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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 ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
seeking an experienced Principal Platform Engineer to join a highly skilled infrastructure engineering team responsible for the design, deployment and operation of mission-critical distributed platforms that power some of the organisation's most important services. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on distributed systems … infrastructure, platform engineering and large-scale data platforms . The successful candidate will be a technical leader with deep expertise in AWS, Terraform and distributed persistence technologies, capable of influencing architecture decisions while remaining close to implementation and operational ownership. You will play a key role in building resilient ...

Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Backend Software Engineer (Go/Node.js Distributed Systems) Remote/Hybrid to £120k + Equity Are you an experienced Backend Software Engineer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges? You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology … Engineer, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform (Delivery, Database, Retrieval)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business. We build and maintain a suite of high-performance, scalable systems that handle more than a billion events in a second. As an engineer in our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex … distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data stack. Our Data Org is composed of several key teams, and you could contribute to any of the following areas: Data Delivery: You will build and operate our distributed data delivery pipeline, a high-throughput, low-latency system ...

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 ...

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
n8n
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Oracle Corporation
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

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 ...

Front Office Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Income Risk System)

Hiring Organisation
Morgan Stanley
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

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 ...

Site Reliability Engineer, K8s (Remote International)

Hiring Organisation
PulsePoint
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 … hands-on 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 ...