1 to 25 of 283 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
Senior Software Engineer (Sports betting) Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London | Python | Java | GCP | Real-Time Distributed Systems Build systems where performance really matters. If you're a Senior Software Engineer who gets excited by high-performance systems, distributed architecture … role where you'll simply be maintaining an existing code-base. You'll be solving complex engineering problems, shaping architecture and working on systems where performance, scalability and reliability genuinely matter. You'll have significant technical ownership, influence over engineering decisions and the opportunity to work alongside a highly ...

Lead Software Engineer - Java, Payments

Hiring Organisation
JP Morgan Chase
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
technical contributor, you are responsible for designing and delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas, supporting high-volume payment initiation platforms and complex distributed systems that are essential to the firm’s business objectives.This role requires deep engineering expertise in building and operating production systems at scale, with strong emphasis on distributed systems, low-latency processing, high availability, resiliency, recoverability, observability, and operational excellence.Job Responsibilities: Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down complex technical ...

AI System Researcher

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 in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge of distributed ...

Senior Software Engineer - Messaging & Async Platform Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Deel
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that … focused on building and scaling our messaging and asynchronous communication platform.This role is ideal for someone who has strong experience designing, operating, and improving distributed systems that power event-driven architectures. You will work on the core infrastructure that enables reliable communication between services, supports high-throughput workloads ...

Senior Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
develop secure, cloud-native platforms supporting some of the UK's most sensitive National Security programmes. You'll work across large-scale data ingestion, distributed systems, analyst tooling and secure microservices, solving complex engineering challenges in highly regulated environments. What you'll be building Java services and Apache … NiFi data pipelines that ingest, enrich and process large-scale mission data Secure Spring Boot microservices deployed on OpenShift and Kubernetes Event-driven distributed systems using message brokers to connect services, data stores and processing pipelines Modern JavaScript applications and REST APIs that enable analysts to search, visualise ...

Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)

Hiring Organisation
PulsePoint
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.Build streaming and storage systems at PulsePointPulsePoint processes billions of events daily through Kafka, Hadoop HDFS and Ceph. Our Data Platform team maintains these systems across hybrid infrastructure: bare … systems.SQL Server backup and recovery pipelines, basic cluster support.Data team tooling with self-service capabilities and observability.TechnologyApache Kafka for messaging layerHadoop and Ceph as distributed storage layerSQL Server backup and recoveryTerraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD for operational automationPrometheus, Grafana, Icinga and PagerDuty as observability layerBare-metal servers and hybrid cloud ...

Golang Developer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
West Malling, Kent, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
Workforce Safety Platform (Kings Hill, Kent) KEY POINTS * Full time, hybrid, 2 days a week onsite in Kings Hill, West Malling * Go and distributed systems on AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform * Real device level engineering, GNSS, GPS and RTK positioning over binary protocols * Geospatial processing at volume across tens … geospatial output that has to be accurate and has to be quick. Over time you become the subject matter expert on the Go and distributed systems side of the business. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Build and maintain Go services across the platform * Work on IoT device integration and binary protocol ...

Lead Developer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
mentoring developers and helping define engineering standards across multiple cloud-native products. If you're passionate about modern software engineering and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, this is the type of role that doesn't come around often. The Opportunity You'll work within … available, cloud-native SaaS applications used at significant scale. Working alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers, you'll help deliver resilient distributed systems built around microservices, event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices. This is not a people-management role disguised as leadership. ...

Software Engineer - Backend

Hiring Organisation
DataDirect Networks
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
driven control, automation, and intelligent supportability across large-scale hybrid (OnPrem + cloud) environments.You will design and develop highly scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems that enable centralized orchestration, lifecycle management, policy enforcement, and integration with external systems. This role also involves enhancing API frameworks, improving supportability, and embedding … building foundational services that operate reliably at petabyte scale and support mission-critical AI/data workloads.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and build scalable, high-performance distributed backend services powering the platform control plane.Develop APIs for centralized management of storage and compute across multi-region hybrid (OnPrem + cloud) environments.Architect and implement ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
South West London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £120,000 per annum
Senior Python Software Engineer Up to £120,000 London | Python | Java | Cloud | Real-Time Distributed Systems | Bonus & Excellent Benefits Are you an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges in high-performance, real-time environments? We're partnering with an innovative technology business that's investing … team developing highly available, cloud-native platforms that process large volumes of real-time data. This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging systems where performance, scalability and reliability are critical. You'll have the chance to influence architecture, contribute to technical decision-making and work alongside talented ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Engineering Director, Security

Hiring Organisation
Monzo Bank
Location
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
that protects our global footprint.We’re looking for a deeply technical software engineering leader who has built and led high performing infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems engineering organisations and can apply those skills to one of Monzo’s most important engineering challenges: making security an embedded, invisible property … traditional Head of Security or CISO-style role, and we are intentionally looking beyond career security specialists.Strong candidates may come from software engineering, distributed systems, developer platforms, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale backend product engineering backgrounds. You do not need to have spent your career in security. What ...

Senior Software Engineer, Ad Auctions

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
does the team work on The Advertising Performance group focuses on outcomes for all participants in the advertising ecosystem: advertisers, publishers, and Roku. The systems and solutions span multiple disciplines and technologies to perform real-time multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale … latency. We use machine learning, reinforcement learning, AI, control systems, optimization systems, and auction dynamics to solve a broad set of complex problems. At the core of this is our machine learning, experimentation, and inference platform, which powers the ecosystem and is continuously evolved over time.What ...

Senior Platform SRE

Hiring Organisation
IG Group
Location
Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
team, owning pieces of the reliability platform that hundreds of engineers depend on. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, observability, and systems reliability, turning reliability from a reactive concern into a proactive engineering discipline. You will partner with Platform Engineering, product teams, and Reliability Champions … mitigate, understand, and prevent a repeat. What you'll doBuild and own the reliability platform Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing. Maintain SLO, error budgets and burn-rate tracking Establish and maintain 24/7 operational readiness including automated deployments, blue/green releases ...

AI System Researcher

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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, xxuwjjq distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You w... Considering applying for this job Do not delay, scroll down and make your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out. ...

Software Engineer – High-Performance Computing (HPC) / Quant Technology

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £80,000 per annum
highly specialised technology business that solves some of the most technically demanding problems in high-performance computing, quantitative technology and large-scale software systems . Their engineers work on complex compute-intensive applications used within financial services and other performance-critical environments, covering areas such as large-scale numerical … workloads, risk analytics, simulation, CPU/GPU computing and low-latency systems . They are now looking for a talented Software Engineer with an interest in High-Performance Computing (HPC) to join their growing London team. This isn't a role where you'll spend years working ...

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. As a core contributor to our shared services … team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers ...

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. As a core contributor to our shared services … team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers ...

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. As a core contributor to our shared services … team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers ...

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. As a core contributor to our shared services … team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers ...

Software Engineer - Java/Python

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
software engineering principles. Working within agile engineering teams, you'll contribute to solution design, architecture, automation and continuous improvement while helping deliver reliable, scalable systems for enterprise clients. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain scalable backend applications and services Build secure, high-performing solutions using modern engineering practices Develop … APIs, integrations and distributed systems Contribute to technical design, architecture and engineering best practices Implement automated testing strategies, including unit, integration and contract testing Deploy and support applications using cloud platforms, containers and CI/CD pipelines Monitor, troubleshoot and improve application performance and reliability Collaborate with engineers ...

Software Engineer - Java/Python

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
software engineering principles. Working within agile engineering teams, you'll contribute to solution design, architecture, automation and continuous improvement while helping deliver reliable, scalable systems for enterprise clients. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain scalable backend applications and services Build secure, high-performing solutions using modern engineering practices Develop … APIs, integrations and distributed systems Contribute to technical design, architecture and engineering best practices Implement automated testing strategies, including unit, integration and contract testing Deploy and support applications using cloud platforms, containers and CI/CD pipelines Monitor, troubleshoot and improve application performance and reliability Collaborate with engineers ...

Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Oracle Corporation
Location
Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Manages team delivering scalable distributed systems and components on a 2–4 quarter horizon. Standardizes engineering practices and scalability requirements across teams; oversees optimization for high‐throughput, hyper‐scale workloads; and ensures effective use of distributed state tools and data plane platforms. Guides teams to design fault … tolerant, in‐service‐upgradable systems, set SLO‐aligned durability/availability targets, and implement resiliency mechanisms (load‐shedding, throttling, rate‐limiting). Provides oversight for KPIs, telemetry, and moderately complex dashboards; directs design of functional/correctness requirements, fault‐injection tests, and replication/synchronization strategies. Ensures proactive incident ...

Lead Software Engineer - Low Latency Java

Hiring Organisation
JP Morgan Chase
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 100 K
capabilities. Initially, you will be responsible for leading the development of the quality engineering framework to support the validation of a complex, low latency distributed system. The role’s scope is broad and will extend to include contributions across the entire project including the delivery of production code.Day … design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code.Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.Contribute to the on-going development of the team, including recruitment, paired programming, peer ...