1 to 25 of 42 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in Cambridge

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 ...

Senior Systems Research Engineer - Research Engineering - MSR Cambridge

Hiring Organisation
Microsoft
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
site: 3 days/week in-officeRole type: Individual ContributorTravel: Less than 25%Profession: Research, Applied, & Data SciencesDiscipline: Research SciencesCompany: MicrosoftOverviewWe are seeking a Systems Research Engineer to accelerate our Future AI Infrastructure research area. You will bring key skills and experience in operating systems, performance, distributed systems, CPUs, GPUs, and machine learning. Good systems research happens when you build things to uncover hidden assumptions – your implementation skills are at the heart of this. You will collaborate closely with researchers to identify, design and implement proof of concept solutions to some of the hardest ...

ML Data & Platform Engineer

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
better models into production faster. This is a broad, cross-functional role suited to someone who enjoys working across the full stack: data infrastructure, distributed systems, and production ML, and who takes ownership of problems end to end rather than waiting to be told what to fix. What … both iteration speed and production reliability, including GPU utilisation, job scheduling, and training efficiency Implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) across data pipelines and ML systems to catch issues early and keep things running smoothly Troubleshooting complex issues across distributed systems, spanning data infrastructure, training, and inference Continuously ...

Senior Researcher - AI Systems - Microsoft Research

Hiring Organisation
Microsoft
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Research Cambridge, we are shaping the future of AI infrastructure by tackling long-horizon research challenges that will define the next generation of computing systems, co-designed with the hardware they run on and with the models they serve.You will pursue fundamental research on the systems that underpin … infrastructure, spanning distributed systems, programming languages, networking, memory and storage, together with the runtimes, abstractions, and platforms that make future AI workloads more performant, efficient, reliable, and scalable.This position is perfect for researchers who are excited by open-ended questions that span traditional disciplinary boundaries, typically ...

ML Data & Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Speechmatics
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
better models into production faster.This is a broad, cross-functional role suited to someone who enjoys working across the full stack: data infrastructure, distributed systems, and production ML, and who takes ownership of problems end to end rather than waiting to be told what to fix.What … both iteration speed and production reliability, including GPU utilisation, job scheduling, and training efficiencyImplementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) across data pipelines and ML systems to catch issues early and keep things running smoothlyTroubleshooting complex issues across distributed systems, spanning data infrastructure, training, and inferenceContinuously improving our data ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Platform Recruitment Limited
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
Title: Principal Software Engineer Role: Distributed Systems & Communications Location: Cambridgeshire Salary: £60-£80k Platform Recruitment has partnered with an innovative technology company developing mission-critical systems used by organisations worldwide. They're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the technical direction of their platform. … Responsibilities: Lead architecture and implementation of systems in C#/.NET Build low-latency applications handling high-volume data traffic Drive technical vision and mentor engineers across the team Oversee code reviews, coding standards and CI/CD pipelines Key Requirements: 10+ years C# and .NET Core Strong distributed ...

Senior Software Engineer – Live & VOD Video Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
build large-scale video infrastructure powering Live and VOD streaming workflows at Roku. In this role, you will collaborate with video engineers to build systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and delivering large volumes of video content. You will design and maintain resilient, cloud-native services that operate continuously … scale, solving complex distributed systems challenges across high-throughput media pipelines. This position requires hands-on software development, including writing new code and maintaining existing codebases across critical video infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in backend systems engineering and a passion for building reliable, performant ...

Infrastructure Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Speechmatics
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the systems that power our AI research and development, ranging from bare metal GPU clusters through to the internal services our engineers rely on every day. This is a broad role with technical depth and people leadership. You will … supporting career developmentA desire to go deep into any subject and a genuine love of learning on the jobBroad knowledge of the infrastructure supporting distributed systems — operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, containers and container orchestrationComfortable troubleshooting Linux systems (we use Ubuntu)Solid experience with infrastructure ...

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure / Efficiency / Productivity

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
across a variety of disciplines.About the RoleYou will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems.What You’ll Be DoingRoku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier … branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools.Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel/BitBake/Yocto preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments.Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g. ...

Software Development Engineer, Ring Cloud Computer Vision

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
discovery. About The Team We are a team of passionate professionals who thrive on collaboration and innovation and we never stop in improving distributed cloud systems, challenging status quo and leveraging state-of-the-art technologies. Our team is at the forefront of delivering always-on AI-powered … distributed systems that serve tens of millions of Ring customers worldwide. Dealing with hundreds of thousands of events per second and billions of video streams processed daily, you'll be part of a elite group working on truly global-scale cloud systems that few companies can match. ...

Portfolio Software Full Stack Engineer (Contractor)

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
engineering expertise needed to develop and evolve our internal tools and services.You’ll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing and maintaining scalable backend systems and supporting the applications that enable decision-making across the organisation.Job OverviewThe Portfolio Team drives and influences how Arm’s product strategies come … contract basis.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, with a strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, distributed systems and API design.While this is a full stack role, the primary emphasis is on backend development, system architecture and code quality. Experience ...

Portfolio Software Full Stack Engineer (Contractor)

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
expertise needed to develop and evolve our internal tools and services. You’ll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing and maintaining scalable backend systems and supporting the applications that enable decision-making across the organisation. Job Overview The Portfolio Team drives and influences how Arm’s product strategies … basis. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building backend services using Node.js and TypeScript , with a strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, distributed systems and API design. While this is a full stack role, the primary emphasis is on backend development, system architecture and code quality ...

Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
strong machine-learning infrastructure experience to help the Roku Entertainment Assistant team deliver reliable, high-quality conversational experiences at scale. You will own production systems across ranking, model delivery, evaluation and LLM-agent behaviour, working closely with machine-learning, product, data and platform partners. This is a hands … retrieval, guardrails and answer caching. Design caching as an intentional latency and cost lever for high-volume services. Build observability for ML and LLM systems, including latency attribution, quality metrics, tracing and per-request cost. Improve the reliability and operability of distributed systems, and lead the diagnosis ...

Lead Delivery Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jagex
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
foundations that help teams across Jagex deliver better software, faster As an Automation Engineer at Jagex, you’ll design, build, and evolve the automation systems, tools, and workflows that support an open-world experience in Unreal Engine across PC and console platforms.As our Lead Delivery Engineer, you’ll establish … environments, including cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes.Demonstrable understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and microservices, with experience making pragmatic technical decisions across complex or varied technology stacks.Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive adoption ...

Lead Delivery Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jagex
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
foundations that help teams across Jagex deliver better software, faster? As an Automation Engineer at Jagex, you'll design, build, and evolve the automation systems, tools, and workflows that support an open-world experience in Unreal Engine across PC and console platforms. As our Lead Delivery Engineer … including cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes. Demonstrable understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and microservices, with experience making pragmatic technical decisions across complex or varied technology stacks. Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive ...

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OpenSourced Ltd
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £70,000 per annum
directly controls physical robotic platforms operating in demanding environments. If you enjoy solving complex robotics challenges using modern C++, ROS2 and real-world control systems, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing Developing modern C++ software for autonomous robotic systems Building and maintaining … ROS2-based robotic applications Working on motion planning, trajectory generation and robot control Integrating perception, sensor and vision systems Collaborating with software, electronics and mechanical engineering teams What We're Looking For Strong modern C++ experience Commercial ROS2 experience Robotics, automation or autonomous systems background Linux development experience ...

Senior Researcher - AI Computer Architecture

Hiring Organisation
Microsoft
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
light. Our Future AI Infrastructure (FAI) team at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pioneering new hardware and system technologies to fundamentally reshape how AI systems scale — breaking through the bandwidth, latency, and energy walls that constrain today's accelerator architectures. You will join a team at the frontier … industry partners to translate architectural vision into working silicon and system prototypes that define the next generation of AI infrastructure. As an AI systems architect with expertise in computer architecture, you will be the core member designing and evaluating future AI computer-system architectures that leverage novel optical interconnects ...

Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
join our team in Cambridge. This role has significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm! Engineering IT supplies the tools and systems needed for creation of software and hardware IP. Within this the Engineering Platform Services function provides tooling used across the company’s engineering population … hardware and software engineers. The domains and areas include: Be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation and evolution of developer-facing systems and features to reduce cognitive load and enable self-service. Collect feedback from internal teams to understand their challenges and design solutions to address them. ...

Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
join our team in Cambridge. This role has significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm!Engineering IT supplies the tools and systems needed for creation of software and hardware IP. Within this the Engineering Platform Services function provides tooling used across the company’s engineering population … hardware and software engineers. The domains and areas include:Be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation and evolution of developer-facing systems and features to reduce cognitive load and enable self-service.Collect feedback from internal teams to understand their challenges and design solutions to address them. Drive ...

Backend Software Engineer – Go, Python, AWS

Hiring Organisation
Intellectual Capital Resources
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Python. Designing web services with “Top-Down”/“Schema-First” approach. Having experience in GraphQL is a significant plus. Relational Database (e.g. MySQL) and distributed database (e.g. AWS RedShift, Snowflake) Distributed systems Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) Containerised development CI/CD Kubernetes Please note this ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sepura
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
lead the design, development, and optimisation of our mission-critical communication infrastructure. This role is central to ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of systems vital for public safety and essential services. You will act as a technical leader, mentoring other engineers and driving best practices across the development … innovative technology company, based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.Role: Specific responsibilities will include:Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance, resilient, and secure communication systems using C#/.NET.Develop robust, low-latency applications that handle high-volume data traffic (e.g., messaging queues, real-time data processing).Drive technical vision ...

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Aveva Group
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Microsoft Azure services, such as Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Service Bus, Event Hub, and Application Insights.Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems principles.Web development using Angular or equivalentBehavioursThirst for learning and the confidence to put the learning into practice straight awayEnthusiastic and positive attitudeBe both ...

Staff Private Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Glance).Strong Ansible/Terraform (or equivalent) and infrastructure lifecycle automation experience.Strong experience with Linux internals.Strong programming skills in Python and C.Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.Experience operating large secure production multi-tenant systems at scale.Strong fullstack domain expertise across one of the following network, storage … environment.“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:Experience managing hybrid platforms across multiple data centres and clouds.Hands-On experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native systems!Experience with DPU acceleration!In Return:You will work on a modern internal platform used by engineering teams across the organization and globe. ...

Senior Manager Application Development

Hiring Organisation
ADP - Automatic Data Processing
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
understand our next wave of work. To thrive in this role, you'll need to have a solid understanding of technologies, including APIs, distributed systems design, operational scaling and availability, and application integrations. Deep knowledge of .NET framework versions 4.8 as well as .NET 10 and SQL Server ...

Staff Private Cloud Engineer

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Ansible/Terraform (or equivalent) and infrastructure lifecycle automation experience. Strong experience with Linux internals. Strong programming skills in Python and C. Experience designing distributed systems and APIs. Experience operating large secure production multi-tenant systems at scale. Strong fullstack domain expertise across one of the following ...