1 to 25 of 36 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in the South West

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
client is expanding their engineering team and we’re supporting them in the search for a Senior Java Developer with strong experience in distributed systems, large‐scale data processing, and high‐performance microservices. This is an opportunity to join a highly technical environment working on an event‐driven … play a key part in designing and delivering Java‐based services that power a complex, data‐intensive system. The ideal candidate enjoys solving distributedsystems challenges, improving performance, and contributing to architectural decisions. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain Java‐based microservices Build scalable event‐stream processing pipelines using ...

Head of Engineering (AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Plymouth, Devon, 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
Plymouth, Devon, 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 ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Orbis Group
Location
Bath, Somerset, 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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Bristol, Avon, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£125,000 - £150,000 per annum
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 ...

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

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, 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 ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Bristol, 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Swindon, 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Plymouth, Devon, 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
Bath, Somerset, 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. ...

Scala Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Brixton, Devon, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Brixton, Devon, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Edmonton, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Cloud Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Backend Software Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Brixton, Devon, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Engineering Manager Remote UK-based setup

Hiring Organisation
Interact Consulting Limited
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
code (around 20%) while shaping engineering direction, architecture, and best practices across a growing technology function. What you'll do Lead and mentor a distributed team of engineers, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Stay hands-on by architecting and delivering core systems and integrations … lead engineer, ideally stepping into or already operating as a Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager. Strong technical background in building cloud-based systems and hands-on backend or API development (any modern stack). Deep understanding of scalability, distributed systems, and performance optimization. Passion for mentoring ...

Scala Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Brixton, Devon, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Data Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

AI Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
167 Solutions Ltd
Location
Bath, Somerset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
remain hands-on while operating at architectural and strategic depth. You will act as the technical authority behind next-generation Generative AI and Agentic systems , working across multiple client programmes rather than being tied to a single product or domain. You will have the freedom to shape standards, influence … thrive on variety, complex problem-solving, and high-impact delivery, this role is designed for you. What Youll Do Architect Agentic & GenAI Systems Design, build, and optimise production-grade Generative AI applications using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex . Integrate with leading LLMs including GPT, Claude, Gemini ...

Staff Kotlin Engineer

Hiring Organisation
George Blake
Location
W1, Marylebone High Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £90000/annum
backend development using Java and Kotlin. Deep understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms. Proven experience in system architecture and designing distributed systems. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design. Strong ...

Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Bohr Limited
Location
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Europe’s gas networks. This is an opportunity for a high-potential junior or early mid-level Java engineer to work on real-world systems that directly support cleaner, safer infrastructure and the transition to net zero. About Bohr Bohr exists to decarbonise energy through innovation. Through our methane … emissions division, Tectrac, we combine mobile leak detection technology with cloud platforms, analytics, and GIS-led insight. Our systems help utilities detect, prioritise, and repair methane leaks faster, cutting emissions and improving safety across the UK and Europe. The Role We’re looking for a Java Software Engineer ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aveni
Location
Plymouth, Devon, 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 ...