51 to 75 of 270 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£90,000 - £105,000 per annum
used by clients to explore trends and drive smarter advertising decisions. THE ROLE As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will help shape a distributed data and compute platform designed for large-scale ingestion, transformation and machine learning workloads. Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following: Designing … optimising of distributed systems for high-throughput data processing Build services and tools in Python or Go, with the opportunity to cross-train in the other. Work across data pipelines, data warehouses and processing frameworks to support analytics and AI products, contributing to new applications and evolving existing ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Acceler8 Talent
Location
United Kingdom
Lead 8–12+ week technical implementations Write and push production backend code Own API integrations and complex data workflows Debug SQL, async services, and distributed systems Work directly with customer engineering teams Influence product roadmap from the field High autonomy. High visibility. Real ownership. This is hands … What We’re Looking For Strong backend engineering fundamentals (Python, TypeScript, or similar) Deep comfort with SQL (joins, aggregations, performance tradeoffs) Experience shipping production systems in B2B SaaS API fluency: designing, debugging, integrating Comfort reasoning about distributed systems and async behavior Strong communication - you can explain technical ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Orange Quarter
Location
Farringdon, Devon, UK
days in-office) Type: Full-time Reports to: Head of Engineering About the Role We build decision-making infrastructure for complex, real-world systems, primarily in global logistics. Our platform combines edge devices, cloud-based analytics, streaming data pipelines, and graph-based systems to process real-time data … design and scale the core backend infrastructure. This is a hands-on role in a small, research-led team working on high-complexity distributed systems. You will own systems end-to-end, from architecture through to production. Responsibilities Design and build backend services and data pipelines in Python ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Orange Quarter
Location
Farringdon, England, United Kingdom
days in-office) Type: Full-time Reports to: Head of Engineering About the Role We build decision-making infrastructure for complex, real-world systems, primarily in global logistics. Our platform combines edge devices, cloud-based analytics, streaming data pipelines, and graph-based systems to process real-time data … design and scale the core backend infrastructure. This is a hands-on role in a small, research-led team working on high-complexity distributed systems. You will own systems end-to-end, from architecture through to production. Responsibilities Design and build backend services and data pipelines in Python ...

Principal Security Architect

Hiring Organisation
InfoSec People Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
security assessments for critical product initiatives. Defining opinionated, reusable secure architecture patterns, developer guardrails and security controls. Providing hands‐on architectural guidance across distributed systems, microservices and containerised workloads (Kubernetes). Shaping and maturing secure SDLC practices and CI/CD pipeline security. Influencing product strategy and engineering … Principal‐level architect with strong Product Security leadership experience. Deep technical capability in multi‐cloud architecture and modern application security. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, distributed systems, microservices and container security. Proven experience in threat modelling, secure design reviews and establishing secure patterns. A collaborative, low‐ego operator comfortable ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
commercially aligned architecture at serious scale. You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering and enterprise stakeholders, owning solution design across complex distributed systems, driving architectural standards, and influencing long-term platform strategy across multiple business domains. What You'll Be Doing Designing scalable, cloud-native solutions … across Azure Defining architectural patterns for event-driven and microservices-based systems Working closely with senior engineering leaders and product teams Translating complex business capability into robust technical solutions Driving integration strategy across internal and external platforms Governing design quality without becoming a bottleneck Environment Azure cloud-native platform ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 - £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 AI & Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Cititec
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
across trading, data, and risk environments Drive large scale cloud transformation across GCP, Azure, AWS, or hybrid ecosystems Establish engineering and architecture standards across distributed systems, data platforms, and platform reliability Embed AI into real trading workflows including automation, optimisation, and decision intelligence and be at the cutting … What You Bring Proven leadership experience operating at senior or executive level within complex technology and trading organisations Deep technical credibility across cloud engineering, distributed systems, and modern data platforms Strong understanding of applied AI and machine learning in production environments Experience within multi-strat trading, hedge funds ...

Infrastructure Engineer - Virtualisation - VMWare

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£360 - £390/day
vendors * Manage full hardware and software lifecycle from deployment to decommissioning Skills and Experience: * 15+ years' total IT experience, including 12+ years in distributed systems (Linux, Windows, HA solutions, server hardware, VMware) * Extensive experience managing VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI, vLCM) within banking/finance environments … Strong automation delivery experience across large-scale virtualisation infrastructure * Deep understanding of network and storage technologies in distributed systems * Proven leadership and team management capability * Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills * Experience managing full infrastructure lifecycle This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity for someone who combines deep ...

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 ...

Technical Insight Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
essential. Technical Depth: Strong background or project experience in one or more of the following:Large-scale Models: LLMs, Foundation Models, Generative AI. Systems: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems. Infrastructure: Databases, Compilers. Programming: C++, Rust, Python, Java, etc. Track Record: Proven history of publications, technical blogs, or conference ...

Technical Insight Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
essential. Technical Depth: Strong background or project experience in one or more of the following: Large-scale Models: LLMs, Foundation Models, Generative AI. Systems: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems. Infrastructure: Databases, Compilers. Programming: C++, Rust, Python, Java, etc. Track Record: Proven history of publications, technical blogs, or conference ...

Principal Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NHS England
Location
Leeds / London, LS1 4AP, United Kingdom
Salary
£99380.00 to £114511.25
work in both maintaining our legacy data platforms estate and transforming how the NHS uses data through the Federated Data Platform. Principal Systems Engineers are responsible for national systems, leading the development and operation of these key systems. Principal System Engineers will work closely with and provide mentorship … Lead Systems Engineers and Senior Systems Engineers while guiding the technical delivery across multidisciplinary teams. We utilise Agile, Lean and DevOps delivery practices, with an emphasis on internet facing services utilising Cloud and open standards to create large scale national solutions for the NHS. The post of Principal ...

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 ...

Staff Product Engineer, Backend (Go / Node.js / Java / ClickHouse)

Hiring Organisation
Trinity Outsourcing Solutions
Location
United Kingdom
debugging), Go proficiency, agentic frameworks, and code sandboxing. 3. Revenue Operations (Go + Java) The Challenge: Turn usage into revenue. Build rock-solid metering systems that count every event, sync with Stripe and cloud marketplaces, and ensure invoices are accurate down to the cent. Key Skills: Experience with usage … based billing systems, pricing models, Stripe API, and distributed systems architecture in Go (Java knowledge is a plus). 4. Intelligent Edge (Go + OpenTelemetry) The Challenge: Extend the OpenTelemetry Collector with capabilities to reduce data volume through smart sampling and aggregation, allowing customers to cut through ...

Software Engineering Team Lead .NET / C#

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£110,000 - £125,000 per annum
Lead (.NET/C#) A leading global financial services organisation is hiring a Software Engineering Team Lead to work on business-critical Front Office systems supporting high-value trading activity across Rates & FX. This is a senior leadership role combining hands-on technical credibility with team ownership and delivery … accountability , within a modern, cloud-native engineering environment. The Opportunity You will lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for designing, building, and evolving distributed systems used directly by front-office stakeholders. Working in an Agile environment, you'll collaborate closely with senior engineers and architecture teams ...

Founding DevOps Engineer - Up to £85k

Hiring Organisation
Few&Far
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
pipelines and release processes Design secure-by-default infrastructure Shape the company’s incident response culture and processes Introduce tooling to monitor AI-native systems and non-deterministic agents You’ll be defining what “good” reliability looks like from day one. ⚙️ Tech Snapshot GCP | Terraform | Cloud Run | Kubernetes (planned … Logging 👀 What They’re Looking For 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering Strong Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code experience Experience running production distributed systems Built monitoring, alerting and observability in real environments Comfortable running incident response and post-mortems Strong understanding of security fundamentals Experience building ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
In Product
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
days in office) The Opportunity We’re partnered with a scaling, venture-backed SaaS business delivering a mobile-first platform used by large distributed workforces across global enterprise organisations. This is not greenfield development and it’s not legacy maintenance. The business is at ~£20m ARR and growing … Product The platform is a mobile-first employee experience solution built primarily for frontline and deskless workers. It enables organisations to communicate with distributed teams, share operational information, digitise workflows, and integrate workplace tools into a single platform used by large global enterprises. Customers include large brands operating ...

Software Engineer (Active SC required)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Defence & National Security Gloucester or London | 2-3 Days On-Site Per Week SC Clearance Required (and eDV eligibility essential) Build secure, mission-critical systems that help protect the UK. We're hiring experienced Software Engineers to work on high-impact defence and national security programmes. You'll help … build and maintain software within secure, highly-regulated environments. You'll join a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts and security specialists, contributing to complex systems that support UK national security. You will work in a hybrid model, spending 2-3 days per week on-site in either Gloucester ...

Python Developer (high-throughput/low-latency)

Hiring Organisation
Ascendion
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
expertise and hands-on experience building or supporting enterprise-grade platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked on complex, high-performance systems such as trading platforms, financial systems, or other large-scale enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python … Build and enhance REST APIs and microservices Work on high-throughput, low-latency systems Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps and architecture Optimize performance, scalability, and system reliability Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and large datasets Required Skills & Experience ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Undo
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
deployed in some of the world’s most complex software development environments. As a Platform Engineer you will build and maintain the systems that allow us to develop, test and release our products. Responsibilities Deploy, maintain, document and ensure the availability of internal software systems including CI systems … context behind change requests and provide progress updates. Required skills 2-5 years’ experience in a similar role (e.g. Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Linux Systems Engineer, Software Engineer) Strong knowledge of Python development on Linux Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools to deploy containerised services and network configurations ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Campbell North
Location
United Kingdom
Quant Developer (Python) – High Performance Trading Systems | UK Remote We’re looking for a strong engineer with Python expertise who wants to work close to the metal of quantitative trading infrastructure, building and operating the systems that move research into live production. We’re looking for someone … real production systems, improve reliability, and work directly with researchers and traders to deliver robust, high-performance services. Location: UK Remote (for the right candidate) What You’ll Be Doing: Owning production microservices end-to-end – build, deploy, monitor, maintain Turning quant research into reliable production systems Designing ...

Python Developer (high-throughput/low-latency)

Hiring Organisation
Ascendion
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
expertise and hands-on experience building or supporting enterprise-grade platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked on complex, high-performance systems such as trading platforms, financial systems, or other large-scale enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python … Build and enhance REST APIs and microservices Work on high-throughput, low-latency systems Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps and architecture Optimize performance, scalability, and system reliability Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and large datasets Required Skills & Experience ...

Principal Robotics Architect

Hiring Organisation
Akkar
Location
Scotland, United Kingdom
Robotics Architect to help shape the next generation of intelligent laboratory robots. You’ll lead the design of a robust hardware abstraction layer and distributed control systems, bridging hardware, embedded software, and cloud infrastructure . Your work will enable robotic platforms to operate safely, reliably, and at scale … . What you’ll do: Architect edge/cloud systems for autonomous robotic fleets Build edge-first safety and control systems Develop digital twin and simulation frameworks Mentor engineers and define long-term technical strategy What we’re looking for: 8+ years in embedded C/C++ ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SearchWorks
Location
United Kingdom
continue building the product. This is a product engineering role (not consultancy) 🔧 What you'll be doing Architecting the backbone of revolutionary AI systems Create backend systems that deliver sub second response times Help to guide and mentor an extremely strong team of engineers Help to create robust … scalable platforms to process commercial claims faster than every before. 🧠 What they're looking for Expert Python skills with proven experience building high performing systems 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some insights into distributed systems Some frontend experience Some systems architecture exposure Performance ...