18 of 18 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in Scotland

Head of Engineering (AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Orbis Group
Location
Glasgow, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WorkGenius Group
Location
Greater Edinburgh Area, United Kingdom
/ML infrastructure used in production Support model deployment, monitoring and scaling Automate workflows around training, evaluation and deployment Work with GPU-based systems, distributed compute and CI/CD pipelines Partner closely with data scientists and engineers to keep AI systems stable and fast What … bring Strong background in AI Ops, MLOps, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering Hands-on experience with Linux, automation, scripting (Python/Bash) Experience with distributed systems and compute-heavy environments Familiarity with containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or similar) Comfortable operating onsite in Edinburgh 3x/week Nice to have ...

LLM Architect

Hiring Organisation
Bright Purple
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
architect and optimise the platforms that deliver large-scale language models to production. You’ll be working on some of the hardest challenges in distributed AI systems: building ultra-reliable, ultra-scalable environments for inference and deployment. What you’ll be doing Designing cloud-native architectures … custom-built FaaS). Developing approaches to minimise cold-start latency through advanced container snapshotting, weight pre-loading, and graph partitioning . Building distributed inference pipelines with tensor parallelism, model sharding, and efficient memory scheduling to serve LLMs at scale. Experimenting with quantisation, pruning, and KV-cache management ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Aberdeen, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

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 ...

Software Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Cathcart Technology
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Software Engineering Manager required to lead a team of Java engineers in Edinburgh, shaping the development of next-generation, large-scale systems that solve complex technical challenges in a collaborative environment. The Opportunity This is a chance to lead a team of talented engineers building sophisticated, large-scale backend … systems that deliver real-time, mission-critical functionality to millions of users. You'll tackle complex engineering challenges in a regulated, high-availability environment, driving innovation while ensuring reliability, quality, and customer trust. You'll lead an agile team who will be working on Java-based distributed systems ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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. ...

Senior SRE

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate highly reliable, scalable and secure platforms supporting mission-critical applications and data systems in a large, complex enterprise environment. This is a hands-on SRE role for an engineer who enjoys working across software, infrastructure, and operations, using … experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering. Solid programming and scripting skills (e.g. Python, Go, Bash). Deep understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems and cloud platforms. Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Strong incident response, troubleshooting and fault-analysis ...

Senior Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Brightwork Ltd
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
major employers across the UK. They're looking for a Senior Technical Lead to help shape the architecture and delivery of their core systems while driving innovation across a modern .Net and Azure environment. This is a senior hands-on leadership role where you'll guide architecture, mentor engineers … lifecycle from design through to delivery Architect and develop scalable backend services using .Net, C#, and Azure Guide RESTful API and microservice development across distributed systems Champion TDD and maintain a quality-first engineering culture Oversee containerised deployments using Docker and Azure DevOps Collaborate with key stakeholders ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aveni
Location
Aberdeen, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Aveni is redefining how financial institutions use AI. We build real, production-ready agentic systems that reshape how banks, advisers and financial services firms operate, replacing fragmented processes with intelligent, end-to-end workflows. We have been recognised as Fintech of the Year for two consecutive years and awarded … advisers, analysts and banking teams. Your work will focus on: Designing and implementing robust event-driven microservices and APIs Building scalable, cloud-native systems on AWS Developing modern, responsive React front-ends Integrating LLM-powered capabilities into real-world workflows Collaborating closely with product and AI specialists to turn ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
LSEG
Location
Edinburgh, UK
changes are built and shipped. WHAT YOU'LL BRING: You will bring 5–10+ years of experience building and operating highly scalable systems in production, ideally within data‐intensive or analytics‐heavy environments. You've worked hands‐on with Azure and have experience operating Databricks platforms supporting both streaming … working with SQL, have experience with data modelling, and know how to diagnose and improve query performance on large datasets. A proven understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, such as fault tolerance, stateful processing, and system resilience. You've worked with event‐driven architectures and have supported systems ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Piper Maddox
Location
Paisley, Renfrewshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Strong Python and SQL skills. Hands-on Databricks experience (DLT, Delta Lake; Unity Catalog desirable). Solid understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, and distributed systems. Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable). Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Exposure ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Piper Maddox
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Strong Python and SQL skills. Hands-on Databricks experience (DLT, Delta Lake; Unity Catalog desirable). Solid understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, and distributed systems. Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable). Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Exposure ...

Senior Backend Engineer (Python & FastAPI)

Hiring Organisation
Prism Digital
Location
Aberdeen, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Senior Backend Engineer – High-Scale Systems | Python & FastAPI | Security SaaS Salary: £75k - £85k plus bonus Location: Fully remote, (UK-based) Sponsorship is not available for this role Prism Digital have partnered with a super interesting and niche VC-backed client specialising in attack surface management and automated red teaming. … Media IT Services and IT Consulting Computer and Network Security Employment Type Full-time Job Functions Engineering Skills Back-End Web Development Scalability Distributed Systems Python (Programming Lang Senior Backend Engineer – High-Scale Systems | Python & FastAPI | Security SaaS ...

Python Scraping Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£45,000 - £50,000 per annum
innovation, stability, and genuine technical excellence. Recently recognized for cutting-edge GenAI data work, they're operating at the absolute intersection of large-scale distributed systems, ML, and the rapid evolution of search technology. THE ROLE: Advanced web scraping expertise (any language-Python preferred but not essential) Proven ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 per annum
evolve the engineering and data roadmap in partnership with the CTO Drive architecture, scalability, and platform evolution for enterprise clients Extend existing systems into new AI-driven search and intelligence use cases Champion engineering best practices, delivery standards, and continuous improvement Act as a bridge between technical teams, product … leadership Provide leadership across ML, GenAI, and distributed systems initiatives What We're Looking For Proven experience leading data and/or engineering organisations at scale Strong background in data engineering, with close collaboration with data science and MLOps Strategic mindset with the ability to go deep technically ...