1 to 25 of 129 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

AI Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
City Of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: · Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. · Strong knowledge ...

esearch (Systems) Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: Bachelors or Masters degree inComputer Science,Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge of distributed ...

AI Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
build of this platform, shape its architecture, and partner with deep technical SMEs across the business to ensure our AI systems operate with the highest levels of performance, security, and responsible oversight The client is investing in the next generation of AI capabilities, with safety, resilience, and trust … core. We're creating a cutting-edge AI Control Tower -a centralised platform and dashboard that monitors, governs, and optimises AI systems across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering. This role ...

Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions. Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP , containerisation, and serverless technologies. Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value. Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction. Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence. What you'll bring ...

AI Systems Architect

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Winsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Systems Architect - Cheshire My Client is a privately owned technology company operating in a specialist, data-driven domain, currently scaling a complex software platform built around edge computing, distributed systems, and AI workloads. They are seeking an experienced AI Systems Architect to take technical ownership … offers significant autonomy, influence over technical direction, and long-term progression for the right individual. The Role This position sits at the intersection of systems architecture, backend engineering, and platform reliability. You will design and build the infrastructure that connects distributed edge environments with backend services, ensuring systems ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
ClearSky Logic
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70,000
using .NET Core for large enterprise applications. Technical Excellence: Establish and maintain coding standards, review practices, and ensure high coding standards across the team. Distributed Systems: Architecting microservices and distributed systems using inter-service communication like gRPC and HTTP APIs. Event-Driven Design: Leveraging message-based … systems, specifically Azure Service Bus, for asynchronous processing. Infrastructure & DevOps: Managing Infrastructure as Code and Azure CI/CD pipelines to drive innovation. Testing Strategy: Implementing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, and subcutaneous/e2e testing. Who We Are Looking For A Technical Mentor: Someone who provides guidance ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iDPP
Location
Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Clearance Essential Our client, an innovative UK technology company is building a next-generation AI platform for defence and health applications . Their systems operate in highly regulated, mission-critical environments where reliability, security, and performance truly matter. Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take technical ownership … platform components, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role youll be writing code, shaping systems, and directly influencing the future of the platform. This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to shape both the technology and the engineering culture within ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
capabilities that underpin AI observability and governance across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering . You will develop core components of the platform, contribute to its evolution, and ensure our AI systems … capture metrics such as: Model performance, drift, and degradation Operational and service health Security posture and policy adherence Guardrail compliance for ML and GenAI systems Governance and risk indicators Implement observability tooling using logging, metrics, tracing, and event-driven patterns. Apply secure-by-design principles, strong IAM practices ...

Satellite Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
client is leading the way in next-generation communications, building laser communication systems and software-defined networking platforms for aerospace and deep-space applications. With technology acquired from Google, theyre creating solutions that let satellites, aircraft, and even cislunar networks communicate seamlessly essentially bringing space and Earth … What Youll Be Doing Building and maintaining delay-tolerant networking products, platforms, and APIs using Rust, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Working on scalable and distributed systems using Kubernetes Debugging, optimising, and improving systems for full-scale production environments Collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing ...

Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions click apply for full job details ...

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 ...

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
Scotland, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
True North Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £130,000 per annum
models and other compute-intensive workloads. The platform combines modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, GPU clusters, and developer-first tooling to support mission-critical AI systems operating across multiple regions. They’re now looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure backbone — someone who enjoys operating … complex systems at scale and working closely with infrastructure, ML, and product engineering teams. What You’ll Be Doing AI Cloud Infrastructure Design, build, and operate highly available, secure infrastructure supporting AI inference, fine-tuning, and data processing workloads Manage multi-region Kubernetes clusters , including GPU-heavy environments Implement ...

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 ...

Senior Java Developer - Manchester

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
projects. What You'll Do Working primarily in Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.) Drive design and architecture decisions for scalable, secure, and performant systems Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and DevOps to deliver high-impact features Conduct code reviews, establish coding standards, and promote engineering best practices Continuously … improve team workflows and development processes What They're Looking For Good expertise in Java and JVM-based systems (3+ years coding experience preferred) Solid background in system design, distributed systems, and cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) Passion for clean code, testing, and performance optimization ...