51 to 75 of 560 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
About the job As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in the specification, design, integration, and test of our Optical Ground Stations and other products. This role involves working closely with internal engineering teams, external partners, and customers to ensure the systems support … leading a small team, planning sprints, and coordinating activities to ensure timely and successful project delivery. This is a cross-functional role that bridges systems engineering and other engineering disciplines, and operational workflows. Your responsibilities will include: Own systems or subsystems as required, leading specification and verification activities ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
London deep tech company building the software backbone for the autonomous age. Their platform lets operators orchestrate fleets of robots, sensors and autonomous systems, fuse the vast data they generate, and turn it into decisions made faster than any adversary can react. Real systems, deployed in the world … actually matters. Well funded, scaling hard, and engineering led to the core. The problem space This is not CRUD. You'll be architecting systems that ingest and fuse high volume, heterogeneous sensor streams in real time, coordinate autonomous agents over unreliable and contested networks, and surface complex state ...

Senior Software Engineer - Go, Python

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
platforms and business-critical software. This role combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, making it ideal for someone who enjoys building scalable systems while helping shape engineering standards, architecture decisions, and best practices across the wider team. While the primary language is Go (Golang), we're also … Doing Building high-quality backend applications using Go Designing scalable, secure and resilient software solutions Developing and improving APIs, services and distributed systems Collaborating with product, architecture and engineering teams Driving code quality through testing, reviews and best practice Supporting cloud adoption and modern engineering approaches Contributing ...

Card Solutions Architects - Contract role - Sheffield - Immediate

Hiring Organisation
StrategicsIQ Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
drive architecture and design across a large-scale commercial cards ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture for card-based systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and platform roadmaps Translate business requirements (BRDs) into solution designs , decomposing into MVPs, epics, and detailed technical stories … Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures across distributed systems Define integration patterns (REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture) across internal platforms and external partners Provide hands-on architectural leadership to engineering teams, ensuring design consistency and adherence to standards Govern solutions through architecture review boards , ensuring ...

Managing Engineer – Cyber Platform Engineering

Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Drive platform maturity through automation, reuse, standardization, and strong operational discipline. Coach and develop engineers while building high-performing teams with strong execution and systems thinking. Requirements A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or distributed systems delivery. A minimum … years of experience leading engineering teams or technical delivery in product-based environments. Experience operating production systems, services, tools, or pipelines with strong expectations around reliability, observability, security, and maintainability. Strong understanding of integration patterns, automation, cloud-native engineering practices, and scalable platform design. Experience building reusable services, workflows ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Platform Recruitment Limited
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
Title: Principal Software Engineer Role: Distributed Systems & Communications Location: Cambridgeshire Salary: £60-£80k Platform Recruitment has partnered with an innovative technology company developing mission-critical systems used by organisations worldwide. They're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the technical direction of their platform. … Responsibilities: Lead architecture and implementation of systems in C#/.NET Build low-latency applications handling high-volume data traffic Drive technical vision and mentor engineers across the team Oversee code reviews, coding standards and CI/CD pipelines Key Requirements: 10+ years C# and .NET Core Strong distributed ...

Kafka Platform Engineer

Location
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
resilient and secure platform solutions that underpin key business services and support innovation across the organisation. You will work with modern cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale, helping to improve platform reliability, security and automation. This is an opportunity to help shape … scale Confluent Kafka platforms supporting business-critical workloads. Building secure, resilient and highly available streaming solutions, including multi-region and hybrid cloud environments. Applying distributed systems, event-driven architecture and platform automation practices, including Infrastructure as Code, to address engineering requirements across the platform. Developing and improving Kafka ...

Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Location
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
this role, you will contribute to scalable, resilient and secure platform solutions that support services used across the organisation. Working with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures, you will help improve streaming capabilities used by a wide range of teams and business areas. This … scale Confluent Kafka platforms supporting enterprise workloads across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments, including multi-cluster, multi-region and highly available deployments. Applying distributed systems knowledge, event-driven architecture practices and Confluent Platform technologies, including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cluster Linking and ksqlDB, to deliver reliable, scalable ...

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Space Agency, the UKs Department of Science and Technology (DSIT) and the UK Ministry of Defence. About the job As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in the specification, design, integration, and test of our Optical Ground Stations and other products. This role involves working … closely with internal engineering teams, external partners, and customers to ensure the systems support our operational needs and enables smooth integration with partner systems. You will be responsible for defining system and sub-system requirements, designing architecture, ensuring robust integration, and supporting the deployment and maintenance of ground stations. ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
solutions for them. You will work directly with strategic clients to design and implement scalable technical integrations, define production-ready workflows, and ensure AI systems transition from experimentation to reliable deployment. This is a hands-on engineering role with strong product and client-facing responsibilities. Location & Travel: Preferred location … qualified candidates Frequent travel to client sites may be required (depending on client needs) Responsibilities: AI Deployment Architecture: Design and implement integrations between client systems and CloudFactory’s platform Architect scalable agentic AI & human-in-the-loop workflows Define data ingestion, transformation, and feedback loops Evaluate system bottlenecks (latency ...

Software Engineer

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
experience needed to set credible architectural direction and drive outcomes without dependency on external product managers. You will own end-to-end delivery across distributed systems, integrations, data, and infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned engineer who has been there before — someone who can walk … that scales. Requirements We value deep, proven engineering experience over academic qualifications. The ideal candidate brings a track record of building and owning complex systems — someone who has seen what good looks like and knows how to get there. They are comfortable operating across multiple domains — backend, data, integration ...

Senior Infrastructure Integration Engineer

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
physical and virtual server infrastructure. The team evaluates, certifies, integrates, and supports a broad range of infrastructure technologies, including hardware platforms, hypervisors, Linux operating systems, system configuration tooling, critical infrastructure services, automation platforms, load balancing, high availability solutions, and virtualization management technologies. The team plays a key role … fixes. We are looking for a self-starter who can operate effectively within a complex engineering environment. The successful candidate will need to understand distributed systems, assess the broader impact of security related changes, design robust remediation approaches, and produce stable, maintainable, and secure code. They will also ...

Senior Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Role We’re looking for experienced Senior Software Engineers who enjoy building scalable systems, working with cloud infrastructure, and delivering high-quality software in production environments. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and cloud/platform engineering. You’ll be designing, building, and operating modern software … Develop cloud‐native applications across AWS, Azure, or GCP Contribute to system architecture and make key technical decisions Build and integrate APIs, event‐driven systems, and distributed applications Collaborate with platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable deployments Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and improve engineering workflows Leverage ...

Senior Software Engineer C# .Net

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
senior member of the engineering team, you will design and develop business-critical backend services using modern C# and .Net, working on distributed systems that process large volumes of data with demanding performance and reliability requirements. You'll be involved throughout the software lifecycle, from technical design … environment is particularly well suited to engineers with strong computer science foundations who enjoy tackling challenging problems, debating technical approaches and continuously improving both systems and engineering practices. About you: You have achieved a minimum 2.1 BSc in Computer Science or similar technical discipline from a top tier/ ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
IO Associates
Location
Bath, Somerset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£500 - 550 per day
working on Design, build and operate reliable, scalable backend services Own areas of the platform, including architecture and technical direction Build resilient APIs and distributed systems within a regulated financial environment Work with AWS serverless technologies , including Lambda, SQS, EventBridge and API Gateway Work with MongoDB and document … contribute to engineering standards and best practice Key Skills Strong Node.js & TypeScript Strong system design and architecture AWS & Serverless MongoDB/document databases Distributed systems, observability and incident management CI/CD and production operations Experience working in a regulated environment , ideally FinTech or financial services Comfortable owning ...

Senior Software Engineer

Location
Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom
Oversee technical aspects of regional EMEA, APA, and LATAM corporate hierarchy and limits applications Maintain secure, resilient, and highly available critical systems Contribute to modernization of mainframe-based systems toward scalable, cloud-aligned architectures Maintain and enhance COBOL/DB2-based applications Advance distributed, API-driven … features affecting multiple platforms and products Review own work and lead reviews of colleagues’ work Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience) 5+ years of experience in mainframe application development using COBOL, JCL, CICS, and DB2 Proven track record of maintaining ...

HPC Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
ultra‐low latency are non‐negotiable. Role Overview We are looking for a senior Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer with deep experience operating large‐scale distributed systems and recent hands‐on expertise in high‐performance computing (HPC) and AI infrastructure. This is an operations‐first SRE role, working … spanning network engineering, infrastructure SRE, Platform SRE, infrastructure tooling engineers (software) and data centre operations. The ideal candidate has progressed through large‐scale, globally distributed or multi‐site infrastructure environments and has more recently specialised in GPU‐accelerated HPC systems. This role provides exposure to the latest high‐density ...

Software Engineer (Mid and Senior Levels)

Hiring Organisation
One Big Circle Ltd
Location
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
interest from applicants with partial or adjacent skills and backgrounds, to fill a number of different roles within each capability area. Device & Embedded Software Systems Embedded Linux, C++/Python, embedded systems, multi-sensor and camera-based devices (including thermal and line-scan), data acquisition and edge processing … device-to-cloud pipelines, networking, system integration, hardware/software collaboration, field diagnostics, performance optimisation, secure and robust systems, Linux build systems (e.g. Yocto), media pipelines (e.g. GStreamer), FFMPEG, IoT devices, sensor data processing, signal conditioning, computer vision, FPGA exposure, electronics fundamentals. Platform Engineering Cloud infrastructure, AWS, distributed ...

Senior Software Engineer - Live & VOD Video Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
build large-scale video infrastructure powering Live and VOD streaming workflows at Roku. In this role, you will collaborate with video engineers to build systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and delivering large volumes of video content. You will design and maintain resilient, cloud-native services that operate continuously … scale, solving complex distributed systems challenges across high-throughput media pipelines. This position requires hands-on software development, including writing new code and maintaining existing codebases across critical video infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in backend systems engineering and a passion for building reliable, performant ...

Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
European Tech Recruit
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Research Engineer | AI Infrastructure | C++ Systems Engineering One of the largest telecommunications companies in the world is looking for an experienced researcher to join the company in Edinburgh. The Vision 🚀 We are currently scaling a world-class research team in Edinburgh to redefine the foundational software stack … era. As AI transitions from experimental to "agentic" and "AI-native" infrastructure, we are building the super-node clusters and distributed architectures that will power the next generation of global data centres. This is a unique hybrid role positioned at the intersection of academic-grade systems research ...

Java Engineer with AI

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
with AI expertise to design, develop, and deploy intelligent, scalable applications. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and artificial intelligence, building systems that integrate machine learning models, data pipelines, and cloud-native services. This role is ideal for someone passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization … world business challenges. Requirements Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java-based applications Integrate AI/ML models into production-grade backend systems Build RESTful APIs and microservices using modern Java frameworks Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and scale machine learning solutions Optimise system performance, scalability ...

Senior AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £700 to £900 per day
experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate About the Role We are working with a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing advanced AI systems for organisations operating in complex, high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership … production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather than an integration role . You will design and implement sophisticated AI systems from the ground up, make architecture-level decisions, write production-quality software and own features through to deployment. The focus is on turning rapidly ...

Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack - AI

Location
York and North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
agent architectures, and building/consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) services. System Observability & Quality: Strong experience with application observability, logging, and performance monitoring across distributed backend systems and frontend applications. Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams … financial planning, business analytics, or related enterprise SaaS environments. Community Contributions: Contributions to open‐source agent frameworks, MCP servers, or published research in distributed systems or Generative AI. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging (DEIB) We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive ...

Principal Vulnerability Researcher

Location
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
technologies and uncovering previously unknown security vulnerabilities. You will tackle highly ambiguous challenges, connect insights across multiple domains, and help shape how future telecom systems are secured. Build Capability & Research Excellence – Act as a mentor and role model for researchers across the organisation, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration … World- Class Lab – Operate within a cutting- edge research environment where exploration and experimentation are encouraged. You will have the freedom to deconstruct systems, challenge assumptions, discover new attack vectors, and develop innovative approaches that strengthen telecom security at scale. Successful Applicants must be able to commute ...

Platform Engineer – Infrastructure & Cloud Systems

Location
Crawley, England, United Kingdom
that efficiently and responsibly resolve complex natural resource, digital, energy transition and infrastructure challenges.**Job Details**Viridien is seeking a **Platform Engineer – Infrastructure & Cloud Systems** to design, build, and improve infrastructure and platform systems that support software deployment and execution across large-scale, distributed environments.You will work … across multiple layers of the stack, including infrastructure platforms, container orchestration, authentication systems, and observability tooling. This role focuses on building scalable, reliable systems and ensuring strong integration between infrastructure and higher-level platforms.**About The Team**You will join a team focused on infrastructure and platform engineering ...