1 to 25 of 151 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

AI Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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: · Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. · Strong knowledge ...

esearch (Systems) Engineer

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 inComputer Science,Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge of distributed ...

Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions. Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP , containerisation, and serverless technologies. Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value. Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction. Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence. What you'll bring ...

esearch (Systems) Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 Annual
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 click apply for full job details ...

Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Azure/GCP

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT Limited
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions. Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP , containerisation, and serverless technologies. Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value. Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction. Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence. What you'll bring ...

AI Systems Architect

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Winsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Systems Architect - Cheshire My Client is a privately owned technology company operating in a specialist, data-driven domain, currently scaling a complex software platform built around edge computing, distributed systems, and AI workloads. They are seeking an experienced AI Systems Architect to take technical ownership … offers significant autonomy, influence over technical direction, and long-term progression for the right individual. The Role This position sits at the intersection of systems architecture, backend engineering, and platform reliability. You will design and build the infrastructure that connects distributed edge environments with backend services, ensuring systems ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
ClearSky Logic
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70,000
using .NET Core for large enterprise applications. Technical Excellence: Establish and maintain coding standards, review practices, and ensure high coding standards across the team. Distributed Systems: Architecting microservices and distributed systems using inter-service communication like gRPC and HTTP APIs. Event-Driven Design: Leveraging message-based … systems, specifically Azure Service Bus, for asynchronous processing. Infrastructure & DevOps: Managing Infrastructure as Code and Azure CI/CD pipelines to drive innovation. Testing Strategy: Implementing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, and subcutaneous/e2e testing. Who We Are Looking For A Technical Mentor: Someone who provides guidance ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iDPP
Location
Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Clearance Essential Our client, an innovative UK technology company is building a next-generation AI platform for defence and health applications . Their systems operate in highly regulated, mission-critical environments where reliability, security, and performance truly matter. Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take technical ownership … platform components, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role youll be writing code, shaping systems, and directly influencing the future of the platform. This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to shape both the technology and the engineering culture within ...

Software Engineer (Defence)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
high-impact engineering team operating at the heart of the UK's national security and defence mission. You'll work on sophisticated, mission-critical systems that support real-world operations, collaborating with experts across engineering, intelligence and defence. This is a role for engineers who want to work … scalable software solutions for some of the most sensitive and challenging technical environments in the UK. You'll work within multidisciplinary teams that include systems engineers, analysts, data specialists and security professionals. Engineering excellence, attention to detail and collaboration will sit at the core of your ...

Satellite Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
client is leading the way in next-generation communications, building laser communication systems and software-defined networking platforms for aerospace and deep-space applications. With technology acquired from Google, theyre creating solutions that let satellites, aircraft, and even cislunar networks communicate seamlessly essentially bringing space and Earth … What Youll Be Doing Building and maintaining delay-tolerant networking products, platforms, and APIs using Rust, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Working on scalable and distributed systems using Kubernetes Debugging, optimising, and improving systems for full-scale production environments Collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing ...

Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions click apply for full job details ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Platform Engineer / DevOps (AI / ML)

Hiring Organisation
Europe-Leading Media Technology Company
Location
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
they care deeply about the work and the impact it has. This role is for someone who is comfortable carrying real responsibility for production systems and making decisions that matter. Alongside our core business, we are scaling a consumer social/film-based platform with meaningful early traction. … responsible for evolving our infrastructure to be faster, more reliable, and more scalable, while keeping operational quality high. Our platform today runs on distributed systems with object storage, CDN-first delivery, high-throughput video pipelines, and GPU-backed ML workloads. We operate a hybrid environment across on-site ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
commercially aligned architecture at serious scale. You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering and enterprise stakeholders, owning solution design across complex distributed systems, driving architectural standards, and influencing long-term platform strategy across multiple business domains. What You'll Be Doing Designing scalable, cloud-native solutions … across Azure Defining architectural patterns for event-driven and microservices-based systems Working closely with senior engineering leaders and product teams Translating complex business capability into robust technical solutions Driving integration strategy across internal and external platforms Governing design quality without becoming a bottleneck Environment Azure cloud-native platform ...

Technical Insight Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
essential. Technical Depth: Strong background or project experience in one or more of the following:Large-scale Models: LLMs, Foundation Models, Generative AI. Systems: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems. Infrastructure: Databases, Compilers. Programming: C++, Rust, Python, Java, etc. Track Record: Proven history of publications, technical blogs, or conference ...

Technical Insight Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
essential. Technical Depth: Strong background or project experience in one or more of the following: Large-scale Models: LLMs, Foundation Models, Generative AI. Systems: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems. Infrastructure: Databases, Compilers. Programming: C++, Rust, Python, Java, etc. Track Record: Proven history of publications, technical blogs, or conference ...

Technical Insight Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
essential. Technical Depth: Strong background or project experience in one or more of the following: Large-scale Models: LLMs, Foundation Models, Generative AI. Systems: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems. Infrastructure: Databases, Compilers. Programming: C++, Rust, Python, Java, etc. Track Record: Proven history of publications, technical blogs, or conference ...

Software Engineering Team Lead .NET / C#

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£110,000 - £125,000 per annum
Lead (.NET/C#) A leading global financial services organisation is hiring a Software Engineering Team Lead to work on business-critical Front Office systems supporting high-value trading activity across Rates & FX. This is a senior leadership role combining hands-on technical credibility with team ownership and delivery … accountability , within a modern, cloud-native engineering environment. The Opportunity You will lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for designing, building, and evolving distributed systems used directly by front-office stakeholders. Working in an Agile environment, you'll collaborate closely with senior engineers and architecture teams ...

Software Engineer (Active SC required)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Defence & National Security Gloucester or London | 2-3 Days On-Site Per Week SC Clearance Required (and eDV eligibility essential) Build secure, mission-critical systems that help protect the UK. We're hiring experienced Software Engineers to work on high-impact defence and national security programmes. You'll help … build and maintain software within secure, highly-regulated environments. You'll join a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts and security specialists, contributing to complex systems that support UK national security. You will work in a hybrid model, spending 2-3 days per week on-site in either Gloucester ...

Senior Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CleanTech Talent
Location
Scotland, United Kingdom
Senior Network Engineer – Advanced Comms & Distributed Systems The Company Join a cutting-edge engineering organisation developing advanced communication systems for a new generation of distributed, high-reliability platforms. You’ll be part of a collaborative environment where software, hardware, RF and systems teams work together … build resilient, high-performance networks across geographically distributed infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work on genuinely unique networking challenges, far beyond typical terrestrial systems. The Role We’re seeking a practical, curious and hands-on Senior Network Engineer to design, build and support IP-based communication systems ...

Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CleanTech Talent
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Senior Network Engineer – Advanced Comms & Distributed Systems The Company Join a cutting-edge engineering organisation developing advanced communication systems for a new generation of distributed, high-reliability platforms. You’ll be part of a collaborative environment where software, hardware, RF and systems teams work together … build resilient, high-performance networks across geographically distributed infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work on genuinely unique networking challenges, far beyond typical terrestrial systems. The Role We’re seeking a practical, curious and hands-on Senior Network Engineer to design, build and support IP-based communication systems ...

LLM Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
building software tools and agentic applications that leverage our AI hardware and large language models. We need software engineers who can design scalable backend systems and integrate advanced LLM capabilities. Qualifications Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and work on-site Strong problem-solving skills and attention … Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field Experience in LLM-related software development is a plus Key responsibilities Design, build and deploy distributed systems and AI agents that leverage LLMs and retrieval‐augmented generation (RAG) to provide contextual, reasoning‐based capabilities. Develop cloud‐native microservices ...

Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Akkodis
Location
Cheadle, England, United Kingdom
projects that shape the future of technology. Scope We are seeking a highly experienced Software Architect to design, develop, integrate, and assure large-scale distributed software systems in a safety-critical or safety-related environment. The role requires deep technical expertise in C/C++, Java, and Python … combined with strong systems thinking, software assurance, and delivery leadership. Role You will contribute across the full software lifecycle, working closely with architects, project management, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver robust, secure, and high-integrity software solutions, primarily on Linux and Windows platforms, within a regulated defence environment. ...

Backend Systems and Integrations Developer

Hiring Organisation
Broster Buchanan
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £75,000 per annum
This role will focus on the development and maintenance of scalable, cloud-native software solutions that integrate their e-commerce platform with critical business systems including Warehouse Management, Finance, Inventory, and other back-office applications. On offer is a salary of up to £60k - £70k/£75k + … days onsite in Liverpool and 2/3 days remote. Responsibilities: Design and develop backend integrations between e-commerce platforms (mostly Magento) and enterprise systems including WMS solutions and ERP/Finance platforms Implement enterprise integration patterns including message routing, content enrichment, and data synchronisation to ensure reliable communication ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ocho
Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Principal Java Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across a critical product area, shaping architecture, guiding engineering standards and influencing how scalable backend systems are designed and delivered. You will work closely with Senior, Staff and Principal Engineers across Belfast and the wider global engineering organisation, contributing to large … scale distributed systems while acting as a technical authority within the team. This role offers a strong mix of hands-on development, architectural decision making and mentorship. What you will be doing Owning technical direction and architecture for key backend services Designing, building and evolving scalable Java ...