26 to 50 of 316 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Junior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
This role sits within a high-performing engineering group responsible for building and supporting the core systems that underpin real-time trading activity. The successful candidate will work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of highly scalable, performance-critical applications. … Responsibilities Build, test, and enhance high-performance trading systems using C++ and Python Translate quantitative models and trading logic into robust production-ready software Develop internal tools and interfaces used directly by front-office trading teams Improve market data ingestion, exchange connectivity, and real-time data flows Contribute ...

Platform Engineer / DevOps (AI / ML)

Hiring Organisation
Europe-Leading Media Technology Company
Location
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
they care deeply about the work and the impact it has. This role is for someone who is comfortable carrying real responsibility for production systems and making decisions that matter. Alongside our core business, we are scaling a consumer social/film-based platform with meaningful early traction. … responsible for evolving our infrastructure to be faster, more reliable, and more scalable, while keeping operational quality high. Our platform today runs on distributed systems with object storage, CDN-first delivery, high-throughput video pipelines, and GPU-backed ML workloads. We operate a hybrid environment across on-site ...

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 ...

Rust/C++ Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Rust, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Multithreading McGregor Boyall are partnered with a leading quant investment manager hiring in London. The fund implements a tech-centric approach to trading: computer science and quant finance have always been core to the fund's identity as they continue … execute the market across all liquid assets. The Data Infrastructure team are seeking a software developer with good knowledge of multithreaded, distributed systems. The fund is highly data-driven and this role will offer significant exposure to critical systems within the company. Lots of variation and a chance ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Team: RegTech (Fintech Business Unit) The Stack Primary: Java (Expert level) & Microservices. Data: Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL. Cloud: AWS (Kinesis, Step Functions, EC2). Focus: Distributed systems, batch processing, and data integrity. The Mission Build and scale automated KYC/KYP (Know Your Customer/Partner) and regulatory compliance … identity verification, risk assessment, and onboarding for a global partner base. Requirements Experience: 3+ years in server-side software development. Architecture: Building highly scalable distributed systems and data pipelines. Expertise: Unit/Integration testing, architecture reviews, and defining SLOs. Mindset: 'Can-do' attitude; able to bridge technical problems ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
Wigan, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £150,000 per annum
complex, data-driven platforms. This role requires someone who can lead multi-disciplinary teams, improve engineering execution, and drive technical excellence across high-scale distributed systems and machine-learning environments. Required Experience Leadership of engineering organisations of 20 or more across multiple disciplines, including backend, web, data … DevOps. Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and high-volume data pipelines. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks such as Spark or Databricks. Experience working closely with Data Science teams, including delivering production-grade ML models and pipelines. Solid understanding ...

C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Quant Finance McGregor Boyall have partnered with a tech-first quant investment manager in London: Someone with experience in Windows-centric, multithreaded C++ and distributed systems could directly shape the performance and reliability of the firm's core trading platforms and UI surfaces - the very systems that … latency/high throughput environment - Expert with Windows-based development with proven experience with STL, MFC, Wx Widgets or Win32 - Advanced knowledge of distributed systems - Linux Red Hat essential Nice to have: - Extensive front office experience in trading - Knowledge of Equities, Futures or Options - Experience working on market ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, 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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, 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 ...

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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, 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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, 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 ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
join the team in central London. This is a unique opportunity to help build a transformative new platform at the intersection of software systems, automation, and intelligent infrastructure. Founded by leading academics and proven entrepreneurs , the business is backed by top-tier investors and is solving complex technical problems … that demand creativity, rigour, and ambition. The Role Build and own core systems and architecture from the ground up Work closely with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy Make key decisions across the full stack — from infrastructure to user-facing elements Contribute to the early engineering ...

Quantum Software Engineer (C++)

Hiring Organisation
CT19
Location
Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
hardware, enabling precise, reliable, and scalable quantum operations. Role Overview As part of a highly multidisciplinary engineering team, you will collaborate closely with physicists, systems architects, and hardware engineers to design and implement robust software infrastructure for controlling and operating quantum processing units (QPUs). Key Responsibilities Design … implement software systems for orchestrating quantum experiments , including pulse sequence generation, device coordination, and real-time system control Develop and maintain APIs and middleware connecting low-level hardware control (FPGAs, DACs, timing systems) with higher-level orchestration software and compilers Implement reliable communication and synchronization protocols across embedded ...

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 ...

OpenShift SRE SME

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies. Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation. Establish and enforce SRE best practices through … call rotation. Your Profile Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration. Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains. Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi. Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking. ...

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

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
United Kingdom
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 ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CipherTek Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
while other days will be remote. Desired technical Skills: Java (Core & Advanced): Strong proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, collections, and concurrency. FIC Trading Systems: Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting electronic trading platforms. Messaging Protocols: Familiarity with FIX protocol, MQ, JMS, or similar messaging solutions. API Development: Experience with … Spring MVC, and related technologies. Database Technologies: Strong SQL skills; experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL solutions. Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed computing concepts and technologies (e.g., microservices, caching, clustering). Testing Frameworks: Experience with JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing ...

Backend Systems and Integrations Developer

Hiring Organisation
Broster Buchanan
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £75,000 per annum
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 ...

Senior Data Engineer, SQL, RDBMS, Python, Celery, RabbitMQ, Pt Remote

Hiring Organisation
Carrington Recruitment Solutions Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
infrastructure and framework choices for data pipelining and data management Manage complex initiatives by setting project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Collaborate effectively with distributed team members across multiple time zones, including offshore development teams Skills required: Proven track record building scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) in production Expert … PySpark, Celery and RabbitMQ skills; deep experience with AWS data stack (Glue, OpenSearch, RDS) Expert skills within SQL with experience in both transactional RDBMS systems and distributed systems Hands-on with Lakehouse technologies (Apache Iceberg, S3 Tables, StarRocks) Strong grasp of data governance, schema design, and quality ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ocho
Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Principal Java Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across a critical product area, shaping architecture, guiding engineering standards and influencing how scalable backend systems are designed and delivered. You will work closely with Senior, Staff and Principal Engineers across Belfast and the wider global engineering organisation, contributing to large … scale distributed systems while acting as a technical authority within the team. This role offers a strong mix of hands-on development, architectural decision making and mentorship. What you will be doing Owning technical direction and architecture for key backend services Designing, building and evolving scalable Java ...