1 to 25 of 314 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems Engineer)

Hiring Organisation
TechChain Talent
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems Specialist Location: New York or London (Hybrid) Salary: $300,000 – $350,000 USD About Us We're a stealth-mode infrastructure venture building next-gen primitives for decentralized execution. Our mission: rethink how distributed systems scale, sync, and self-heal — with … focus on performance, modularity, and cryptographic integrity. Our team includes protocol veterans, systems engineers, and cryptography researchers pushing the limits of what's possible in Web3 infra. The Role We're hiring a Backend Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to help architect and optimize our core ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform Up to £110,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock Central London office Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Senior Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Senior Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, C/C++ or Java. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Experience working on software infrastructure or building Cloud native software using Kubernetes Understanding ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform Up to £130,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock Central London office Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Lead Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Lead Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, Java and/or C/C++. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Confident in leading the definition and creation of solutions from ...

Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Vertex Search
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Tooling Build Python tooling, libraries, APIs and SDKs to support model training, evaluation and deployment Develop experiment-tracking, model-versioning and reproducibility tools Create systems for managing large and complex multimodal datasets Distributed Systems & Infrastructure Build scalable data pipelines for large clinical and research datasets Develop distributed systems for i.e. training foundation models Improve reliability, performance and resource use across compute clusters Research Enablement Partner with researchers to understand workflows and remove bottlenecks Prototype tools and iterate quickly based on research feedback Translate research ideas into production-grade software Engineering Excellence Write clean and scalable ...

Technical Solutions Engineer - Deep-Tech AI Start-up

Hiring Organisation
Urban Digital Recruitment Ltd
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
retail estates. They're hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer, not a TAM, not a PM, not an implementation role. Think: deep troubleshooting, edge deployments, distributed systems, containers, logs, Linux, cloud, and full technical ownership of AI models running across thousands of PoS devices. If you love pulling systems … Background You're a hands-on, client facing, technical support engineer with real ownership experience in live customer environments, ideally within RetailTech (SaaS), PoS systems, edge AI, computer vision, or IoT. You understand: Edge ML pipelines (training, validation, orchestration) Retail IT infrastructure (PoS, SCO, store networks) Integration frameworks (APIs ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Block MB
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
becoming the operating system for trading teams globally. The role You'll be the reliability specialist embedded in a product engineering team, owning how distributed systems are designed, run and scaled rather than sitting in a separate ops silo. Expect real‐time data, high‐throughput pipelines … while maintaining strong security and resilience. Build and enhance observability stacks for metrics, logging, tracing and alerting, and guide incident response. Mentor engineers in distributed systems, reliability engineering and infrastructure design, acting as a technical reference point. What you bring 7+ years in software engineering, SRE, DevOps ...

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £190k + Bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Role: Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £190k + Bonus Salary: Up to £190k + Bonus Location: London (Hybrid) Skills: Language agnostic, just need to be a keen technologist (Ideally experienced in Rust, Python or C++) This firm is an elite company with high tech standards who have … find the best team to suit your skillset/interests but you could be working on: • Designing and developing scalable, tested and production grade distributed systems • R&D work for functional programming; either pre-existing languages (such as Rust and Erlang), or purpose-built languages similar to OCaml ...

Principal Software Engineer C#, Azure, Watford, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
after a very successful period, they have acquired several competitors. After a period of consolidation, they are now looking to unify all their systems into a single source of truth. They are also looking to scale massively over the next 5-years as they enter new markets … before scaling up to 100+ millions events per day. You'll work at the top of the engineering track, designing and delivering high-performance, distributed systems while guiding others through implementation and problem-solving. This is a deep technical role, ideal for someone who thrives on code, architecture ...

Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++ / Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000.

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £77,000 per annum, OTE
Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++/Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000 | Hybrid (London/Remote) Build technology that powers real trading. Join a high-performance engineering team developing low-latency, resilient backend systems used in live trading environments. You’ll work on complex technical challenges from … Quant-Engineering tracks within 12–24 months. What You’ll Do Design, build, and optimise backend components of real-time trading and risk systems Develop clean, efficient, high-performance code in C++ and Java Work closely with traders, quants, and senior engineers to deliver new features Solve complex problems ...

Cloud Native Engineer (AWS)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
public-sector and national-security organisationsacross three specialisms: Software Engineering (Java, full stack, microservices) DevOps/Platform Engineering (Kubernetes, automation, cloud) Solution & Cloud Architecture (distributed systems, event-driven design) You'll work hands-on building secure, scalable systems; shaping technical direction; and contributing to a collaborative engineering … Design and build cloud-native applications using Java (Spring Boot) and React Develop microservices, APIs, and event-driven components Work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and distributed data patterns DevOps/Platform Engineering Build and maintain secure, automated platforms using Docker , Kubernetes , and IaC Implement CI/CD pipelines and delivery ...

Backend Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jonothan Bosworth
Location
Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £65,000 per annum
Java. Collaborate broadly: Work with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable telecom solutions. Optimise performance: Integrate databases, APIs, and ensure efficiency across systems. Harden systems: Implement redundancy, security, and performance tuning for telecom operations. Problem-solve: Troubleshoot challenges in distributed systems and live client environments. Contribute … lifecycle. What we’re looking for 4+ years’ hands-on backend Java development experience. Strong expertise in RESTful APIs and microservice architectures. Background in distributed systems, OOP, and networking fundamentals. Cloud environment experience (AWS, GCP, etc.), plus Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD. Proven track record optimising ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pexip
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
automation, and quality assurance. About you We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences. If you re passionate about building high-performance, real-time systems, we d love to hear from you even if you don t tick every box. We value curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn … experience with asynchronous and network programming. What you ll do: Collaborate with a talented, diverse team to design and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to distributed systems that impact hundreds of thousands of users globally. Apply your problem-solving skills to challenging, meaningful work. Competencies that will help ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Wide and Wise
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
looking for Software Engineers to join our partner company! You will play a key role in building next-generation infrastructure and AI systems that accelerate innovation across industries such as aerospace, healthcare, and energy — fields still limited by outdated, manual processes. This is not a traditional engineering role. … scaling fast and looking for exceptional builders who thrive on ownership, speed, and purpose. What You'll Do Design and develop production-grade APIs, distributed systems, and backend services using Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or similar technologies. Design and ship backend systems from day one — scalable architectures ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Autonomai Recruitment
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
ideal candidate comes from a top-tier tech environment (FAANG, elite trading, hyperscale infra). They have experience building technology 0→1, owning systems end-to-end, and working close to the metal. They will operate across everything from bare-metal Linux to modern build and observability stacks. Overview … clusters, network configuration, and large-scale orchestration. Set observability standards; expand monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics across platforms. Analyze networking, kernel-level performance, and distributed systems—solving core challenges in a multi-petabyte, multi-cluster environment. Build Python tools for automation, reliability engineering, and performance analysis. Design highly ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
Wigan, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
RELIABILITY ENGINEER ROLE: As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of critical digital platforms. You'll monitor production systems, refine SLAs/SLOs and error budgets, design scalable solutions, improve architecture through telemetry insights, and build dashboards that provide clear visibility of system … Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) * Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry * Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems * Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, operations and product teams TO BE CONSIDERED: Please either apply through this advert or email ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
join the team in central London. This is a unique opportunity to help build a transformative new platform at the intersection of software systems, automation, and intelligent infrastructure. Founded by leading academics and proven entrepreneurs, the business is backed by top-tier investors and is solving complex technical problems … that demand creativity, rigour, and ambition. The Role Build and own core systems and architecture from the ground up Work closely with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy Make key decisions across the full stack — from infrastructure to user-facing elements Contribute to the early engineering ...

Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer Robotics

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £1,000 per day
technology. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on scale, performance, and reliability. You will work across the full machine learning lifecycle, from distributed training pipelines to highly optimised inference systems deployed into production robotics environments. The Role You will join a highly technical team working … intersection of software engineering, machine learning infrastructure, and robotics. Your focus will be on turning cutting-edge models into robust, production-ready systems that run efficiently across cloud and constrained hardware environments. You will collaborate closely with researchers and ML engineers, help shape architectural decisions, and solve complex systems ...

Agentic Developer - Building guardrails for autonomous AI

Hiring Organisation
governr
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
building the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI safe for enterprise deployment. Not governance theatre. Not compliance checkboxes. Actual technical systems that can monitor, quantify, and govern AI agents operating with autonomy in production environments. If you've been following the trajectory from static models to agentic systems … competitive window before large incumbents build comparable capabilities to stay relevant. The Role As an Agentic Developer at governr, you'll build the core systems that monitor, analyse, and govern autonomous AI agents in production. This isn't traditional software engineering with well-worn patterns. You're designing architectures ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Aberdeen, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Swindon, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Belfast, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Cardiff, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Leicester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Nottingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
Liverpool, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
office. You'll join the Platform Engineering team which designs, builds, and operates the firm's global production trading infrastructure—from hardware and Linux systems to Kubernetes, observability, and build platforms. They work with a mix of open-source and in-house technologies to solve scaling, reliability, and performance … problems in a highly collaborative environment. We're expanding the team with a Platform Engineer who enjoys building highly scalable systems, adopting new technologies, and debugging complex production issues. Systems and platforms owned: In-house observability platform (ClickHouse, Redpanda, Rust) Firm-wide build and distribution systems Linux ...