51 to 75 of 172 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
lifecycle-from submission and peer review through to editorial decisions and publication. We focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement as we modernise core systems and introduce new capabilities. About the Role This role provides senior technical leadership across multiple teams, helping to shape architecture, engineering practices, and modernisation … patterns Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, resilience, and incident learning Establish pragmatic technical standards and promote consistency across teams Mentor engineers in architecture, systems thinking, and engineering best practices Requirements Experience operating as a senior or principal engineer across multiple teams or domains Proven ability to influence architectural ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Moorepay
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
experience using LLM APIs or AI-enhanced features and Agents. Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or serverless platforms. Interest in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or DDD concepts. Familiarity with observability tooling and debugging complex systems. ...

Principle Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £100000/annum
technical problem-solving, system design, and raising engineering standards across teams. What You'll Be Doing Owning Architecture & Technical Direction Design and build scalable, distributed systems using .NET (C#) Define and evolve system architecture across AWS cloud environments Lead on complex technical challenges and system design decisions Ensure … influence the wider engineering team through knowledge sharing and technical mentorship Hands-On Delivery & Innovation Contribute directly to coding, design, and delivery of key systems Work across the full lifecycle - from design through to deployment and optimisation Drive improvement across CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native practices Collaborate ...

AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIA MATCH LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £110,000 per annum
cutting-edge AI implementation. You won't be training models. You'll be architecting and building the orchestration layer that makes complex LLM systems reliable, scalable, and genuinely useful in production environments. You'll work on some of the most technically demanding AI challenges in industry: multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and robust evaluation frameworks, all at enterprise scale. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building production-grade AI systems that integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and agentic frameworks Creating evaluation and observability frameworks to measure, monitor, and continuously improve system performance, accuracy ...

SRE Lead - Cyber Security

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
platforms. Collaborating closely with Platform Engineering and DevSecOps, you will drive reliability across the technology stack, improve observability, automate operational processes and help ensure systems remain secure, performant and easy to operate. As a senior member of the team, you will lead incident response activities, champion a culture … proficient with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) You have a good understanding of networking, Linux OS and distributed systems You enjoy problem solving and working on complex systems You're collaborative with great communication skills What ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Global
Location
Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
partnerships, we make sure we're doing it as a team. Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global's technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you'll develop and improve scalable … reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation. As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will: Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python ...

Senior AI Engineer (LLMs, Python & Java)

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Bracknell, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
fast-growing (~280 people) Healthtech organisation making a real-world impact. This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI strategy, design production-grade systems, and bring cutting-edge LLM-powered solutions into a live product environment. The Role Youll sit at the intersection of AI, backend engineering … cloud systems , designing and deploying intelligent features that directly impact users. Expect to: Design and implement LLM-based applications (RAG pipelines, agents, copilots) Build scalable backend services using Python and Java Integrate AI into existing cloud-native SaaS platforms Own the full lifecycle: experimentation prototyping production Optimise model performance ...

Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote UK

Hiring Organisation
FBI &TMT
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
codebases, and developer workflows to improve how software is built, deployed, and operated. You'll take ownership across the stack - collaborating with engineers, improving systems end-to-end, and helping the team deliver reliably as the platform continues to grow. Core Technology Stack TypeScript/Node.js frameworks (e.g. NestJS … based backend frameworks Database tuning and optimisation (PostgreSQL or similar) Experience with container-based architectures Building internal tooling or improving developer platforms Exposure to distributed systems or event-driven architectures Experience in regulated or financial environments What We're Looking For Engineers who enjoy working in scaling environments ...

Data Engineer | 12 month FTC | Newcastle | SC Clearance Essential

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£35,000 - £57,000 per annum
ideal) Solid understanding of stream processing (event time, state, backpressure) Experience building ETL/ELT or real-time data pipelines Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems Tech & Cloud Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) Familiarity with Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery Engineering Practices Strong in testing … 3+ years in data engineering Agile experience and strong communication skills Nice to Have Consulting/client-facing experience Real-time/low-latency systems Certifications or mentoring experience Details 12 month FTC, very likely to convert to perm Upto 3 days per week in Newcastle Pay dependant ...

AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
fast-growing (~280 people) Healthtech organisation making a real-world impact. This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI strategy, design production-grade systems, and bring cutting-edge LLM-powered solutions into a live product environment. The Role Youll sit at the intersection of AI, backend engineering … cloud systems , designing and deploying intelligent features that directly impact users. Expect to: Design and implement LLM-based applications (RAG pipelines, agents, copilots) Build scalable backend services using Python and Java Integrate AI into existing cloud-native SaaS platforms Own the full lifecycle: experimentation prototyping production Optimise model performance ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
RedTech Recruitment
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
bonus + benefits Requirements for Senior C++ Software Engineer: Strong commercial software engineering experience using C++ Experience designing, developing and maintaining production-quality software systems Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to lead technical projects and contribute to architectural decisions Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers Comfortable working … enhance innovative software products and platforms Lead technical projects from concept through to deployment Contribute to the architecture and design of complex software systems Collaborate with engineers, researchers and technical specialists across multiple disciplines Analyse and solve challenging technical problems Support the evaluation and prototyping of new ideas ...

Senior Software Engineer - TypeScript / Next.Js / SQL

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
technology-led business is rebuilding and modernising the core system including billing, invoicing, reconciliation, integrations, operational workflows, reporting, customer tooling, and internal platforms. These systems sit at the heart of the organisation and directly influence revenue, operational efficiency, customer trust, and commercial decision-making. This role is suited … someone who enjoys solving complex operational and data problems, and who takes ownership of outcomes rather than simply delivering tickets. Strong engineering judgement, systems thinking, and an appreciation for correctness are essential in an environment where mistakes can have meaningful downstream impact. AI-assisted development is already central ...

Software Engineer III (Java / Spring)

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Software Engineer III (Java/Spring) Are you passionate about building high‐performance backend systems? Do you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges with Java and Spring? About the team: Our team is dedicated to unlocking the rich knowledge … Software Engineer III to help design, build, and improve services that support document transformation and semantic enrichment workflows. They will work on systems that process content at scale, expose reliable APIs, and support event-driven integrations across the platform. This role is well-suited to someone who enjoys building ...

Ai Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
Yorkshire and Humberside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
Work with Generative and Agentic AI patterns, including LLM integration, RAG architectures, prompt-driven workflows, and AI service orchestration. Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise systems, observability tooling, and security frameworks. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines within cloud-native engineering environments. Support benchmarking, evaluation, experimentation, and cost optimisation … workloads. Contribute to scalable RAG implementations and enterprise data access patterns. Help define reusable APIs, engineering standards, and platform documentation. Troubleshoot and optimise distributed systems and cloud-based services. Collaborate across engineering, platform, architecture, and product teams to deliver reliable AI services. Required Skills & Experience Strong commercial Python ...

Lead AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
Yorkshire and Humberside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
Work with Generative and Agentic AI patterns, including LLM integration, RAG architectures, prompt-driven workflows, and AI service orchestration. Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise systems, observability tooling, and security frameworks. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines within cloud-native engineering environments. Support benchmarking, evaluation, experimentation, and cost optimisation … workloads. Contribute to scalable RAG implementations and enterprise data access patterns. Help define reusable APIs, engineering standards, and platform documentation. Troubleshoot and optimise distributed systems and cloud-based services. Collaborate across engineering, platform, architecture, and product teams to deliver reliable AI services. Required Skills & Experience Strong commercial Python ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
large-scale data platforms (3+ years) Proficiency in Java or Python Hands-on experience with streaming technologies (Kafka/Flink preferred) Good understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS ideally) Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices Why consider this role? Work ...

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Java / React )

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
technologies. Key responsibilities: As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: Designing, developing, and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system to build our next-generation product Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify requirements and gather feedback in a fast-moving environment. Providing input into architectural decisions ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65000 - £75000/annum
with a strong engineering culture and modern tech stack. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain applications using .NET technologies (C#) Build and deploy scalable systems within AWS cloud environments Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver features Champion best practice …/CD pipelines and DevOps processes Required Experience Strong commercial experience with .NET/C# Hands-on experience with AWS (essential) Experience building scalable, distributed systems Strong understanding of APIs and microservices architecture Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps ways of working Ability to work autonomously ...

Senior Software Engineer | AWS & TypeScript (Remote - UK)

Hiring Organisation
Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™
Location
Bury, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
collaborative engineering culture Work closely with Product and business stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions Experience we're interested in: Strong experience building distributed systems and cloud-native applications using TypeScript Deep knowledge of AWS, particularly Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions and DynamoDB Experience designing, building and operating production … grade systems Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI Experience influencing technical decisions and engineering standards Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Bonus: Exposure to observability platforms ...

Senior Software Engineer | AWS & TypeScript (Remote - UK)

Hiring Organisation
Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
collaborative engineering culture Work closely with Product and business stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions Experience we're interested in: Strong experience building distributed systems and cloud-native applications using TypeScript Deep knowledge of AWS, particularly Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions and DynamoDB Experience designing, building and operating production … grade systems Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI Experience influencing technical decisions and engineering standards Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Bonus: Exposure to observability platforms ...

Senior Developer

Hiring Organisation
Addition
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £90,000 per annum
rather than chasing hype. As their platform continues to scale, they're looking for a Senior Developer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving systems, and building software that stands up in production. The Good Bits: £70,000 - £90,000 Hybrid working Exposure to large-scale SaaS platforms Clear … progression opportunities A collaborative engineering culture that values learning and continuous improvement The chance to work on systems used by thousands of people every day A Typical Day in the Role: Building and improving APIs that support critical platform functionality Investigating production issues and tracing problems across distributed ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Digital Waffle
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £75,000 per annum
cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and data platform engineering. The Role You'll work across Azure cloud infrastructure and data platforms, helping to build scalable, secure systems and improve how data flows across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in improving deployment processes, system reliability, and overall platform … Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms Experience with Databricks or modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Synapse, BigQuery) Strong understanding of data pipelines and distributed systems Focus on automation, scalability, and reliability Nice to Have Lakehouse or large-scale data platform experience Observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus) SaaS ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£525 per day, Inc benefits
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Optimize solutions for cloud-native environments, focusing on more than just "lift-and-shift … Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js, backend development using Java or Python, building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications). Proficiency in data engineering & platforms (SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data wrangling). Experience delivering cloud-native solutions ...

Python Engineer (Data)

Hiring Organisation
BCIS
Location
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
looking for a Python Engineer (Data) to join our Engineering team. We’re looking for software engineers who love building reliable, clean, production-quality systems and are excited to apply those skills in the data space. You don’t need to already know Databricks or Spark - if you have … cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP - Azure preferred) Curious, collaborative and motivated to learn new data technologies Enthusiastic about creating maintainable, high-quality systems Nice to have (but not required): Experience with pandas, SQLAlchemy or Pydantic Familiarity with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) Understanding of distributed systems ...