Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

51 to 75 of 265 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

london, south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Anthropic
new capabilities to the training codebase, such as long context support or novel architectures Collaborate closely with teammates across SF and London, as well as with Tokens, Architectures, and Systems teams Contribute to the team's institutional knowledge by documenting systems, debugging approaches, and lessons learned You May Be a Good Fit If You: Have hands-on experience … training large language models, or deep expertise with JAX, TPU, PyTorch, or large-scale distributed systems Genuinely enjoy both research and engineering work-you'd describe your ideal split as roughly 50/50 rather than heavily weighted toward one or the other Are excited about being on-call for production systems, working long days during launches … or other ML frameworks at scale Contributed to open-source LLM frameworks (e.g., open_lm, llm-foundry, mesh-transformer-jax) Published research on model training, scaling laws, or ML systems Experience with production ML systems, observability tools, or evaluation infrastructure Background as a systems engineer, quant, or in other roles requiring both technical depth and operational excellence More ❯
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Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

London, United Kingdom
XACT PLACEMENTS LIMITED
own platform strategy, drive infrastructure evolution, and lead a world-class Platform Engineering organisation across multiple regions. Youll be the force behind a secure, resilient, and ultra high-throughput distributed platform that supports enterprise customers around the world. If you want impact, autonomy, and the chance to build at true global scale, this is it. ?? What Youll Be Doing … Lead, grow, and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation. Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform powering thousands of global workloads. Drive DevOps maturity improving deployment speed, change failure rates, and time-to-recovery across all services. Own cloud and infrastructure strategy across AWS/Azure with a focus on security, performance, cost, and global regulatory … best practice: IaC, automated testing, secure-by-default, documentation excellence. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, reliability, and operational excellence. ?? What Were Looking For 10+ years building and leading distributed engineering teams across multiple regions. Experience leading leaders not just individual contributors. Proven success scaling high-throughput distributed systems in production. Strong background in early-stage B2B More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
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Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Xact Placements Limited
platform strategy, drive infrastructure evolution, and lead a world-class Platform Engineering organisation across multiple regions. You’ll be the force behind a secure, resilient, and ultra high-throughput distributed platform that supports enterprise customers around the world. If you want impact, autonomy, and the chance to build at true global scale, this is it. What You’ll Be … Doing Lead, grow, and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation. Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform powering thousands of global workloads. Drive DevOps maturity — improving deployment speed, change failure rates, and time-to-recovery across all services. Own cloud and infrastructure strategy across AWS/Azure with a focus on security, performance, cost, and global … practice: IaC, automated testing, secure-by-default, documentation excellence. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, reliability, and operational excellence. What We’re Looking For 10+ years building and leading distributed engineering teams across multiple regions. Experience leading leaders — not just individual contributors. Proven success scaling high-throughput distributed systems in production. Strong background in early-stage B2B More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £100,000 per annum
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Application Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Nextech Group Limited
native) Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data) Familiarity with Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis Experience with HTML, server-side rendering (e.g., Next.js), and SEO best practices Exposure to distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures Knowledge of AWS cloud services, including Lambda and Step Functions Understanding of DevOps principles and experience with containerised environments (e.g., Kubernetes) Comfortable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £65,000
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Senior DevOps Engineer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
ECM Selection (Holdings) Limited
experience with: containerised and serverless workloads; IP/network protocols; Windows/Linux command line tools; automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible); CI/CD principles; microservice based architectures; monitoring large distributed systems; related security for cloud-based infrastructure. Expertise with Multi-Region, Multi-Tenant SaaS products would be beneficial due to incoming projects. Experience with KANBAN methodology, IaaC, Kubernetes More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £65000 - £80000/annum DoE + Benefits
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Senior Backend Engineer (Telco Integration Lead) Golang

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. ? 7+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, with a proven track record of building and maintaining high-performance, distributed systems in production. Required Technical Skills ? A minimum of 5 years of production experience with Go (Golang). Experience in other languages (e.g., Python, Node.js) is valued, but More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
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Senior Backend Engineer (Telco Integration Lead) Golang

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. ?7+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, with a proven track record of building and maintaining high-performance, distributed systems in production. Required Technical Skills ? A minimum of 5 years of production experience with Go (Golang). Experience in other languages (e.g., Python, Node.js) is valued, but More ❯
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Real Time Software Development & Deployment Engineer

Cheadle, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Expleo UK LTD
and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe. We are seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in modern C++ development for real-time, distributed systems deployed on Linux-based platforms. The role involves delivering high-integrity, maintainable, and robust software within a complex systems environment, with a focus on containerised deployments … distributed architectures, and strict quality processes. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong ownership, disciplined reporting, and the ability to operate effectively in an Agile delivery environment. Design, implement, and maintain high-quality C++ software for real-time, distributed systems. Develop, debug, and deploy software on Linux targets while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability. Contribute to the design of … distributed software architectures and runtime deployment strategies. Implement clean, standards-compliant code aligned with MISRA, JSF++, and static analysis requirements. Support build, test, and release activities through CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or Git runners. Participate in Agile ceremonies (Scrum/Kanban) and maintain excellent communication and reporting discipline. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to model More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
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Full Stack Developer

London, United Kingdom
Devonshire Hayes Recruitment Specialists Ltd
Develop integration tests as part of the software development life cycle. Create UI proof of concepts using wireframing tools to demonstrate functionality to stakeholders. Provide technical support for production systems as needed. Skills Proficiency in C#, .NET 8, Python, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture. Strong Front End development experience using Nextjs/React/Typescript, with familiarity in wireframing … tools (eg, Figma). Hands-on experience in building distributed systems with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka. Proficient with caching techniques and tools (eg, Redis, Protobuf). Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (eg, Azure DevOps, Octopus, Jenkins). Experience working with both relational (eg, SQL Server, RDS) and NoSQL (eg, MongoDB) databases. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £80000 - £95000/annum
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Full-Stack Developer

City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Devonshire Hayes Recruitment Specialists Limited
Develop integration tests as part of the software development life cycle. Create UI proof of concepts using wireframing tools to demonstrate functionality to stakeholders. Provide technical support for production systems as needed. Skills Proficiency in C#, .NET 8, Python, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture. Strong Front End development experience using Nextjs/React/Typescript, with familiarity in wireframing … tools (eg, Figma). Hands-on experience in building distributed systems with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka. Proficient with caching techniques and tools (eg, Redis, Protobuf). Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (eg, Azure DevOps, Octopus, Jenkins). Experience working with both relational (eg, SQL Server, RDS) and NoSQL (eg, MongoDB) databases. More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £80,000 - £95,000 per annum
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GenAI Python Developer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
EMBS Engineering
Doing: Building backend services and APIs that give secure, governed access to LLM capabilities Developing Python-based GenAI components including prompt orchestration and evaluation tooling Integrating LLMs with enterprise systems, observability layers, and security frameworks Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Working closely with platform leads, architects, and SRE teams to ensure stable, scalable operations … tracking to measure LLM performance and cost Contributing to RAG implementations and vector-driven retrieval patterns Helping shape platform patterns, reusable components, and clear documentation Troubleshooting performance issues across distributed systems and cloud services What You’ll Bring: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong Python at the core Hands-on exposure to GenAI technologies and Large More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £65000 - £75000/annum + Benefits
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GenAI Python Developer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
EMBS Engineering
Doing: Building backend services and APIs that give secure, governed access to LLM capabilities Developing Python-based GenAI components including prompt orchestration and evaluation tooling Integrating LLMs with enterprise systems, observability layers, and security frameworks Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Working closely with platform leads, architects, and SRE teams to ensure stable, scalable operations … tracking to measure LLM performance and cost Contributing to RAG implementations and vector-driven retrieval patterns Helping shape platform patterns, reusable components, and clear documentation Troubleshooting performance issues across distributed systems and cloud services What You’ll Bring: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong Python at the core Hands-on exposure to GenAI technologies and Large More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £450 - £500/day
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Site Reliability Engineer

Hove, East Sussex, South East, United Kingdom
Adroit People Ltd
primary skills). Strong experience with cloud platforms AWS & Azure (primary skills). Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes . Proficiency in cloud native distributed systems & microservices architecture. Exposure to AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics and automated problem resolution. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines & enabling automated release & deployment engineering solutions. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £80,000
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Senior Software Development Manager - .NET/People

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Sanderson Recruitment
business leaders, and project management to understand our next wave of work. To thrive in this role, you'll need to have a solid understanding of technologies, including APIs, distributed systems design, operational scaling and availability, and application integrations. Deep knowledge of the .net framework and SQL Server will be critical for success in this role. You have More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £85,000
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Principal Engineer, BCG Expand, London

London, United Kingdom
Boston Consulting Group
in at least two of the following: Python, SQL, Java Commercial experience in client-facing projects is a plus, especially within multi-disciplinary teams Deep knowledge of database technologies: Distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, EMR) RDBMS (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Neo4j) Solid understanding of software engineering best practices - code reviews, testing More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Platform Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Fruition Group
be creating, iterating, and solving genuine engineering challenges. You'll collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the stack to improve developer experience, strengthen observability, and troubleshoot complex distributed systems. A focus on clean, maintainable code, cloud infrastructure, and strong security practices is essential. Senior Platform Engineer - Key Skills & Experience: Solid background in software engineering, with significant platform … as Terraform Strong understanding of security best practices in application and infrastructure design Exposure to observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging) Confident debugging and resolving issues in complex distributed systems Product-oriented mindset with a collaborative approach to improving developer experience Bonus: experience with Kafka, gRPC, or contributing to open-source projects If you're a Senior … Platform Engineer who thrives on building tools and systems that empower developers and accelerate delivery, apply today. The client is looking to move quickly. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. More ❯
Employment Type: Contract, Work From Home
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Operations Support Technician

belfast, antrim, united kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Cloudsmith
software delivery. We are the world's most potent artifact management platform, built by developers for developers. Our platform supports over 30 formats spanning languages, container formats, and operating systems, with enterprise-grade features, including vulnerability and security scanning, world-class policy management and enforcement, and web-scale to handle the Fortune 500. Organizations integrate Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure … toward IPO and beyond, we're building mission-critical infrastructure that powers software delivery for organizations worldwide. We operate at the cutting edge of cloud-native technology, tackling complex distributed systems challenges that directly impact millions of developers. Now is an exciting time to join us as we revolutionize how organizations deliver and secure software and help write … chapter of our rocketship growth story. The Role We are hiring an Operations Support Technician to join our Operations team. The role itself is based on-site supporting a distributed and predominantly remote workforce, as well as local teams who operate from Cloudsmith HQ. You'll be one of the first in-person point of contact for new Cloudsmithers More ❯
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Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer II - Search Internals, Lucene

london, south east england, united kingdom
Referral Board
help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role: We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team. This globally-distributed team of experienced engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene. This is a principle software engineering … technical vision and direction for Elasticsearch's core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and requires deep expertise in search internals and cross-team collaboration. Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At … and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic. You'll bring your past experience with large-scale search systems to drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch's indexing, query execution, and relevance layers. As an authority in several areas of Elasticsearch, you'll be the go-to expert More ❯
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Senior Cloud Security Engineer Kubernetes

City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Broster Buchanan
team report into the CISO and work alongside the other functional pillars of InfoSec. Role You will build and run defensive security controls for highly-available multi-cloud payment systems running the latest technology. You will understand current threats, exploitation paths and risk tradeoffs in order to advise engineering teams on beneficial security features as well as prioritise management … complex heavily customised multi-cluser environments Your security expertise extends to at least one public cloud, including essential security features and long-term security hardening practices You appreciate building systems with good engineering practices and may have a background in software engineering at scale You're open to being a part of an on-call rota, ready to respond …/CD security, but have good patterns for reducing the risks Your engineering experiences include Golang and Terraform Technologies AWS, GCP, Azure and private Data Centers Kubernetes, Helm, Flux Distributed systems, mostly Golang based with CockroachDB and NATS SIEM/SOAR, EDR, CNAPP, and a suite of open source tools with custom integrations This is a fully remote More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £85,000 - £120,000 per annum
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Senior Technical Lead

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Brightwork Ltd
developing advanced workforce management solutions for 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, and oversee technical delivery … the end-to-end development 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 to align technical delivery with product More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Technical Lead

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Brightwork Ltd
developing advanced workforce management solutions for 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, and oversee technical delivery … the end-to-end development 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 to align technical delivery with product More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
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Block Chain(Web3) Engineer

United Kingdom, UK
IT Technical Jobs
comfortable contributing across the stack—from smart contracts to frontend interfaces, backend services, and infrastructure. You'll be empowered to work on whatever is needed, including introducing new backend systems and components. Skillset required: • 5+ years of experience in software development across the stack. • 2+ years of experience with Solidity and smart contract development. • Proficiency in Rust (especially for … development. • Familiarity with DeFi protocols, on-chain financial primitives, or tokenomics. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm). • Contributions to open-source Web3 projects. • Background in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or data streaming. • Experience with GraphQL, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL databases. Responsibilities: • Design, develop, test, and deploy smart contracts using Solidity (bonus for Rust-based More ❯
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Senior Back End Engineer (.NET/Azure)

Central London, London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
E-Solutions IT Services UK Ltd
reliability, and craftsmanship are valued just as much as delivery speed. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain backend services using C# (.NET 8+) and Azure Services. Develop and secure Modern Distributed Systems using Azure Container Apps, integrating with internal systems. Work with Service Bus, Azure SQL, API Management, and Key Vault to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Design … strong C# skills and hands-on Azure experience, allied to a good functional and commercial understanding of the Banking industry. Core skills include: 5–8 years’ experience building backend systems using .NET Core/.NET 6/8+ and C#. Strong experience with Azure, including Container Apps, Functions, Service Bus, Networking and API Management. Proven ability to build secure More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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Remote Kotlin

london, south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid/Remote Options
Scanz
frontend developers split over different time zones. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Excellent collaboration and communication skills within an asynchronous environment (Slack, Loom). Deep-level understanding of distributed systems and how to make fault-tolerant applications. Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker). Strong familiarity with database systems, particularly PostgreSQL. Comfortable using AWS and cloud More ❯
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Senior Backend Engineer

cardiff, united kingdom
Monzo
mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions you're comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity you're interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.). you think you'd enjoy the kind of work … plus stock options We can help you relocate to the UK We can sponsor visas. This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London). We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at More ❯
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Distributed Systems
10th Percentile
£63,236
25th Percentile
£72,500
Median
£95,000
75th Percentile
£125,000
90th Percentile
£150,000