12 of 12 Distributed Systems Jobs in Scotland

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 QA Engineer – RingOne Advanced Identity Cloud (AIC)

Hiring Organisation
KBC Technologies UK LTD
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
quality reports. Mentor junior testers and share best QA practices. Required Skills & Experience: 8+ years IT experience, including 4+ years in test automation for distributed systems, REST APIs, or cloud apps. 3+ years programming in Java, Python, or C# , building automated frameworks. Hands-on with BDD tools ...

Software Release Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Cathcart Technology
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
join a leading technology business in Edinburgh. In this role, you'll coordinate the end-to-end delivery of software changes across production systems, ensuring releases are reliable, compliant, and delivered smoothly across complex platforms. The Opportunity This is a chance to play a central role in how software … production at scale. You'll work as part of a global release function, supporting engineering teams that deliver frequent, high-impact changes across multiple systems and environments. You'll coordinate releases end to end, helping teams move changes efficiently from development through to production while maintaining strong governance, quality ...

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 ...