51 to 75 of 472 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

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 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/ ...

Principal Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
leadership and subject matter expertise across test engineering disciplines, acting as a recognised authority on testing standards and best practice Drive quality across complex distributed systems, including microservices, APIs and multi-system integrations, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and resilient Influence technical and business stakeholders … passion for embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Strong technical capability in a modern programming language, combined with experience testing APIs, microservices and distributed systems within cloud-based environments. Experience defining and implementing testing strategies, frameworks, governance and quality standards that drive consistency, efficiency and engineering excellence ...

Backend Software Engineer C# .Net - FinTech

Location
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
backend focussed Software Engineer with a first class education looking for an opportunity to progress your career, working on complex and interesting systems in an impactful role? You could be joining a scaling FinTech with secure backing and ambitious growth plans. What's in it for you: Salary … events Your role: As a Backend Software Engineer you will design and develop business critical backend services using modern C# .Net, working on distributed systems that process large volumes of data with demanding performance and reliability requirements. You'll be involved throughout the software development lifecycle, from technical ...

Backend Software Engineer C# .Net - FinTech

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
backend focussed Software Engineer with a first class education looking for an opportunity to progress your career, working on complex and interesting systems in an impactful role? You could be joining a scaling FinTech with secure backing and ambitious growth plans. What's in it for you: Salary … events Your role: As a Backend Software Engineer you will design and develop business critical backend services using modern C# .Net, working on distributed systems that process large volumes of data with demanding performance and reliability requirements. You'll be involved throughout the software development lifecycle, from technical ...

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)

Location
Bath, 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 ...

Software Engineer (Mid and Senior Levels)

Location
Newport, Wales, 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 Specialist Engineer (Specialist Site Reliability Engineer SRE)

Hiring Organisation
UK Health Security Agency
Location
Birmingham, Chilton, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Porton, E14 4PU, United Kingdom
Salary
£41983.00 to £52113.00
perform optimally in production environments. The role will monitor and manage these aspects while taking responsibility for multiple cloud infrastructure services. Observability of systems will be key to prioritising the operational service improvements and performance improvements to meet and exceed SLOs (Service Level Objectives). Main duties … Write code that is maintainable, clear, and concise Optimise system performance using strong problem-solving skills to identify bottlenecks with an engineering mindset Ensure systems can handle current and future workloads through automation and capacity planning Continuously improve services through observability, and identify ways to improve observability practices Follow ...

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 ...

Lead Software Engineer - Public Cloud, Foundational Infra Platforms

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Google Cloud Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, applied from a software engineering perspective Experience designing, developing, and maintaining production software systems consumed by other engineering teams Experience owning technical design decisions and mentoring other engineers Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, distributed systems … Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience engineering and supporting high-volume production platforms, including release engineering, continuous delivery, and automated testing strategy Background in systems design and systems engineering at platform level, ideally including the full operational lifecycle — standing a platform up, running it, and recovering it Depth ...

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 ...

GCP Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Teksystems
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400/day
based trading and post-trade platforms. You will work within the Reference Data platform team, responsible for a critical integration layer that connects multiple systems across the trading ecosystem. The position centres on modernising platform architecture, improving scalability, and enabling robust data integration across domains such as Synthetic Trading … environments. Enable and support microservices architecture deployment using containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS. Implement scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems that align with enterprise architecture standards. Collaborate closely with application developers, traders, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance cloud solutions. ...

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 ...

Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
exposure to modern technologies and engineering practices. What you'll be doing Designing, developing and maintaining software applications Building new functionality and improving existing systems Writing clean, scalable and maintainable code Working with APIs, databases and third party integrations Identifying and resolving technical issues Contributing to technical design … with any of the following would be advantageous: React, Angular or other modern frontend frameworks AWS, Azure or GCP Docker and Kubernetes Microservices and distributed systems Event driven architecture Cloud native development Infrastructure as Code DevOps practices Location: Northern Ireland Level: Mid-level Working pattern: Hybrid #J ...

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 ...

Senior Java Developer

Location
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
working to enhance efficiency, quality, and delivery outcomes. Collaborate with colleagues across Technology and the wider business to identify opportunities to improve existing systems, streamline processes, and deliver new capabilities. Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business requirements, translating them into clear user stories and technical … 21. Strong experience with Spring Boot, and related ecosystem frameworks. Proven experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures. Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing patterns. Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server, including query optimisation ...

The Core Engineering - Site Reliability Engineering - Associate - Birmingham

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
also making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core applications on cloud platforms. Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs combines software engineering and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. As a site reliability engineer, you will play a mission … critical role in ensuring that our systems are healthy, observable, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve production services, enable faster delivery of new capabilities, reduce downtime, and eliminate repetitive operational work through automation. This role sits within Core Engineering and applies ...

The Core Engineering - Site Reliability Engineering - Associate - Birmingham

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
also making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core applications on cloud platforms. Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs combines software engineering and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. As a site reliability engineer, you will play a mission … critical role in ensuring that our systems are healthy, observable, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve production services, enable faster delivery of new capabilities, reduce downtime, and eliminate repetitive operational work through automation. This role sits within Core Engineering and applies ...

Senior Software Developer, Team Lead

Location
Dudley, England, United Kingdom
technical efforts across diverse projects for multiple Mitsubishi Electric businesses - driving architectural decisions, setting technical direction, and delivering production level platforms and the systems thereon end-to-end. You'll operate with significant autonomy, owning problems from ambiguous requirements to reliable, running software. This is a role for engineers … assistants, LLM APIs, AI-augmented workflows) to accelerate development, improve code quality, and build AI-powered features into products Architect and implement cloud-native systems using containerized deployments, infrastructure as code, and modern CI/CD practices Identify and resolve technical risks and bottlenecks proactively - don't wait ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
building the next generation of intelligent, cloud-native systems — and we want you to help lead the way. At JPMorganChase, you'll work at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and cloud infrastructure, delivering solutions that matter at scale. This is an opportunity to grow your craft, shape … will own the delivery of complex, AI-powered software initiatives from discovery through production with minimal supervision. You will design and build intelligent systems leveraging large language models and agentic approaches, expose capabilities through well-designed APIs and microservices, and operate confidently across a multi-cloud environment — ensuring portability ...