1 to 25 of 57 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in the North of England

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 ...

deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform. This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact, working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform. This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact, working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform. This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact, working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

Software Engineer to join its UK-based engineering team. The organisation builds and operates large-scale, consumer-facing platforms used at significant scale. Their systems combine cloud-native services, distributed architectures, and edge-based software, running in highly available, production-critical environments. The Role You’ll join … evolving a complex, real-world platform. The team delivers new features, maintains live services, and continuously improves performance, reliability, and observability across a distributed system. The role covers a broad technical surface area, including: Cloud-based services written primarily in Python Distributed and edge-based components developed ...

reuse, speed, and long-term resilience. Architecture is not an afterthought here — it is a first-class discipline with real influence over how systems are designed, built, and evolved. This role is for a Principal-level Solution Architect who wants to shape platforms , guide engineering teams, and design solutions … solution architecture , not diagram production. Key responsibilities: Owning solution architecture across complex enterprise SaaS platforms Designing cloud-native, scalable, resilient systems Translating product and business needs into clear, executable technical designs Defining architectural patterns, standards, and guardrails Guiding engineering teams through architectural trade-offs Ensuring solutions meet expectations around ...

scale the engineering organization responsible for delivering the company's core risk platform. You'll define technical direction across architecture, data infrastructure, analytics systems, and compute pipelines, while integrating emerging intelligence-driven capabilities such as automated risk scoring, alerting, reporting, and anomaly detection. You'll work cross-functionally with … technical leader in customer evaluations, deployments, and audits. Technical Skills & Required Expertise The role requires deep hands-on architectural and technical leadership across distributed systems, data platforms, and analytics tooling. Languages & Backend Python, Go (Golang), TypeScript Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API-driven architectures Data ...

scale the engineering organization responsible for delivering the company's core risk platform. You'll define technical direction across architecture, data infrastructure, analytics systems, and compute pipelines, while integrating emerging intelligence-driven capabilities such as automated risk scoring, alerting, reporting, and anomaly detection. You'll work cross-functionally with … technical leader in customer evaluations, deployments, and audits. Technical Skills & Required Expertise The role requires deep hands-on architectural and technical leadership across distributed systems, data platforms, and analytics tooling. Languages & Backend Python, Go (Golang), TypeScript Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API-driven architectures Data ...

scale the engineering organization responsible for delivering the company's core risk platform. You'll define technical direction across architecture, data infrastructure, analytics systems, and compute pipelines, while integrating emerging intelligence-driven capabilities such as automated risk scoring, alerting, reporting, and anomaly detection. You'll work cross-functionally with … technical leader in customer evaluations, deployments, and audits. Technical Skills & Required Expertise The role requires deep hands-on architectural and technical leadership across distributed systems, data platforms, and analytics tooling. Languages & Backend Python, Go (Golang), TypeScript Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API-driven architectures Data ...

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 ...

will lead multiple engineering teams across data, ML, web, QA and DevOps disciplines to deliver a platform that processes massive datasets, powers complex distributed systems and provides high-value insights to enterprise clients. You will shape engineering strategy, strengthen execution and drive the organisation's evolution … engineering roadmap across all product and platform areas Lead architectural direction for data processing, machine learning pipelines and web application development Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and capable of handling large-scale data and evolving ML workloads Introduce and measure engineering KPIs Drive improvements in delivery processes, release quality ...

with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

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 ...

projects. What You'll Do Working primarily in Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.) Drive design and architecture decisions for scalable, secure, and performant systems Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and DevOps to deliver high-impact features Conduct code reviews, establish coding standards, and promote engineering best practices Continuously … improve team workflows and development processes What They're Looking For Good expertise in Java and JVM-based systems (3+ years coding experience preferred) Solid background in system design, distributed systems, and cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) Passion for clean code, testing, and performance optimization ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You'll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI's global edge. This role requires deep … expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience. Basic qualifications 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments. ...

provisioning and configuration. Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Support the operation of distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance and security. Contribute coding expertise in languages such as Python, Go or JavaScript. Collaborate closely with clients and cross … automation platforms. Practical programming experience in at least one mainstream language (Python, Go, JavaScript). Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, security principles and distributed systems. Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS). Strong leadership skills and mentorship experience Strong communication, teamwork and stakeholder collaboration skills. Analytical mindset with ...

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 ...

people around the globe. We are seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in modern C++ development for real-time, distributed systems deployed on Linux-based platforms. The role involves delivering high-integrity, maintainable, and robust software within a complex systems environment, with … focus on containerised deployments, distributed architectures, and strict quality processes. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong ownership, disciplined reporting, and the ability to operate effectively in an Agile delivery environment. Design, implement, and maintain high-quality C++ software for real-time, distributed systems. Develop, debug, and deploy software ...