1 to 25 of 42 Distributed Systems Jobs in the East of England

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 ...

Principal Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Travelport
Location
Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 55 K
work collaboratively with engineering and architecture teams to develop pragmatic solutions.Apply security best practices to common application architectures, including web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.Perform technical threat modeling and security design assessments for critical applications and infrastructure.Act as an escalation point for complex security … security, including IAM, VPC and network security, encryption, logging, monitoring, and workload security.Experience applying security best practices to web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, DevSecOps, secure SDLC practices, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security testing.Knowledge of common application ...

Senior Software Engineer – Live & VOD Video Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
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 ...

Software Development Engineer (Java & AWS), Ring

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
team of engineers, and product managers to design, test, learn, and iterate on solutions in a fast-paced environment. You will build low-latency systems with the required uptime of a security system. You will also get to work alongside a talented team, invested in making each other successful … customer experience. This role is a great opportunity to shape the setup process experience for millions of users. Key job responsibilities Design and document distributed systems and microservices. Implement robust and maintainable code with clear and maintained documentation. Deliver customer value in iterative fashion while working towards longer ...

Senior Python Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
Watford, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
monolithic platform into modern, scalable services on Azure. You'll be joining a dedicated Signalling Engineering team responsible for designing and building the systems that power the heart of the business. You'll help build highly resilient APIs and backend services capable of processing millions of signalling events every … exist in smaller engineering teams. What You'll Be Doing Building scalable backend services using Python Designing robust, secure APIs powering critical customer-facing systems Breaking down and modernising legacy applications into distributed services Working on systems processing millions of events every day with high availability requirements ...

Infrastructure Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Speechmatics
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the systems that power our AI research and development, ranging from bare metal GPU clusters through to the internal services our engineers rely on every day. This is a broad role with technical depth and people leadership. You will … supporting career developmentA desire to go deep into any subject and a genuine love of learning on the jobBroad knowledge of the infrastructure supporting distributed systems — operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, containers and container orchestrationComfortable troubleshooting Linux systems (we use Ubuntu)Solid experience with infrastructure ...

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure / Efficiency / Productivity

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
across a variety of disciplines.About the RoleYou will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems.What You’ll Be DoingRoku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier … branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools.Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel/BitBake/Yocto preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments.Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g. ...

Lead Delivery Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jagex
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
foundations that help teams across Jagex deliver better software, faster As an Automation Engineer at Jagex, you’ll design, build, and evolve the automation systems, tools, and workflows that support an open-world experience in Unreal Engine across PC and console platforms.As our Lead Delivery Engineer, you’ll establish … environments, including cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes.Demonstrable understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and microservices, with experience making pragmatic technical decisions across complex or varied technology stacks.Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive adoption ...

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OpenSourced Ltd
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £70,000 per annum
directly controls physical robotic platforms operating in demanding environments. If you enjoy solving complex robotics challenges using modern C++, ROS2 and real-world control systems, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing Developing modern C++ software for autonomous robotic systems Building and maintaining … ROS2-based robotic applications Working on motion planning, trajectory generation and robot control Integrating perception, sensor and vision systems Collaborating with software, electronics and mechanical engineering teams What We're Looking For Strong modern C++ experience Commercial ROS2 experience Robotics, automation or autonomous systems background Linux development experience ...

Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
join our team in Cambridge. This role has significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm! Engineering IT supplies the tools and systems needed for creation of software and hardware IP. Within this the Engineering Platform Services function provides tooling used across the company’s engineering population … hardware and software engineers. The domains and areas include: Be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation and evolution of developer-facing systems and features to reduce cognitive load and enable self-service. Collect feedback from internal teams to understand their challenges and design solutions to address them. ...

Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
join our team in Cambridge. This role has significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm!Engineering IT supplies the tools and systems needed for creation of software and hardware IP. Within this the Engineering Platform Services function provides tooling used across the company’s engineering population … hardware and software engineers. The domains and areas include:Be responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation and evolution of developer-facing systems and features to reduce cognitive load and enable self-service.Collect feedback from internal teams to understand their challenges and design solutions to address them. Drive ...

Backend Software Engineer – Go, Python, AWS

Hiring Organisation
Intellectual Capital Resources
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Python. Designing web services with “Top-Down”/“Schema-First” approach. Having experience in GraphQL is a significant plus. Relational Database (e.g. MySQL) and distributed database (e.g. AWS RedShift, Snowflake) Distributed systems Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) Containerised development CI/CD Kubernetes Please note this ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Location
Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom
understand pain points, proactively identify opportunities, and prioritise high‐impact platform improvements. Leading architecture and design discussions, providing expert guidance on cloud‐native patterns, distributed systems, and platform capabilities. Designing, implementing, and continuously improving CI/CD and GitOps workflows to enable safe, fast, and repeatable delivery. Championing … keep the platform modern, efficient, and competitive. What we would like from you Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps within a distributed cloud environment. Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally in managed environments such as AKS. Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud ...

Senior Researcher - AI Computer Architecture

Hiring Organisation
Microsoft
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
light. Our Future AI Infrastructure (FAI) team at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pioneering new hardware and system technologies to fundamentally reshape how AI systems scale — breaking through the bandwidth, latency, and energy walls that constrain today's accelerator architectures. You will join a team at the frontier … industry partners to translate architectural vision into working silicon and system prototypes that define the next generation of AI infrastructure. As an AI systems architect with expertise in computer architecture, you will be the core member designing and evaluating future AI computer-system architectures that leverage novel optical interconnects ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sepura
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
lead the design, development, and optimisation of our mission-critical communication infrastructure. This role is central to ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of systems vital for public safety and essential services. You will act as a technical leader, mentoring other engineers and driving best practices across the development … innovative technology company, based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.Role: Specific responsibilities will include:Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance, resilient, and secure communication systems using C#/.NET.Develop robust, low-latency applications that handle high-volume data traffic (e.g., messaging queues, real-time data processing).Drive technical vision ...

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Aveva Group
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Microsoft Azure services, such as Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Service Bus, Event Hub, and Application Insights.Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems principles.Web development using Angular or equivalentBehavioursThirst for learning and the confidence to put the learning into practice straight awayEnthusiastic and positive attitudeBe both ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Watford, England, United Kingdom
looking for... A bit about the role At Allwyn, the Site Reliability Engineer supports the reliability and performance of digital services by operating production systems, building automation, and improving observability. You will work closely with Senior SREs and engineering teams to ensure services remain stable, scalable, and well-instrumented … Kubernetes is a plus) + Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Basic programming/scripting capability (Python, Bash, etc.) Troubleshooting & operations Ability to diagnose issues in distributed systems Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools Understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals SRE fundamentals Understanding of: + Monitoring and alerting ...

Staff Private Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Glance).Strong Ansible/Terraform (or equivalent) and infrastructure lifecycle automation experience.Strong experience with Linux internals.Strong programming skills in Python and C.Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.Experience operating large secure production multi-tenant systems at scale.Strong fullstack domain expertise across one of the following network, storage … environment.“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:Experience managing hybrid platforms across multiple data centres and clouds.Hands-On experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native systems!Experience with DPU acceleration!In Return:You will work on a modern internal platform used by engineering teams across the organization and globe. ...

Principal Software Engineer

Location
Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
JavaScript frontend experience building secure, accessible user interfaces that integrate with enterprise web shells, APIs, and backend services. Experience designing and integrating enterprise information systems with a deep understanding of data flows, system boundaries, and operational impact of change. Ability to collaborate effectively with data scientists and other … convert data, models, and experimentation into reliable, usable product capabilities. Production ownership experience: managing partial failure, resilience, blast‐radius thinking, and incident management. Distributedsystems fluency: service boundaries, transactional thinking, multi‐tenant design, API design, and versioning. Strong architectural communication skills, able to explain, document, and defend design ...

Staff Private Cloud Engineer

Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Ansible/Terraform (or equivalent) and infrastructure lifecycle automation experience. Strong experience with Linux internals. Strong programming skills in Python and C. Experience designing distributed systems and APIs. Experience operating large secure production multi‐tenant systems at scale. Strong full‐stack domain expertise across ...

Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems (Streaming Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
Teamwork makes the stream work.Roku is changing how the world watches TVRoku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in ...

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Hiring Organisation
Roku
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
variety of disciplines.About the teamThe Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers, Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span across different disciplines and technologies to perform realtime multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale and low latencies. … Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning, Experimentation and Inference Platform that powers the entire landscape which we continuously evolve over time. About the roleIn this role ...

Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Watford, England, United Kingdom
Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for technical leadership of reliability engineering across the digital estate, ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience of customer-facing systems during both normal operation and peak lottery events. The role combines hands‐on engineering, incident leadership, and ownership of the SRE improvement backlog … leadership Define and govern SLOs/SLIs/error budgets across critical services Lead reliability design reviews across: Web & mobile platforms Player Identity & Protection systems CMS and Geolocation services Drive architecture improvements for resilience (failover, degradation, scaling patterns) Production operations & incident leadership Act as incident commander for major incidents ...

Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Watford, England, United Kingdom
Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for technical leadership of reliability engineering across the digital estate, ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience of customer-facing systems during both normal operation and peak lottery events. The role combines hands-on engineering, incident leadership, and ownership of the SRE improvement backlog … leadership Define and govern SLOs/SLIs/error budgets across critical services Lead reliability design reviews across: Web & mobile platforms Player Identity & Protection systems CMS and Geolocation services Drive architecture improvements for resilience (failover, degradation, scaling patterns) Production operations & incident leadership Act as incident commander for major incidents ...

Senior Robotics & Lab Automation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sartorius
Location
Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Sartorius you will have access to cutting‐edge robotic platforms and laboratory instrumentation – from collaborative and industrial robot arms to advanced liquid handlers, imaging systems, analytical instruments and bioreactors. You will be able to combine modern robotics tooling (e.g. middleware, orchestration frameworks, simulation and computer vision) with real‐world … role with laboratories in Royston, near Cambridge, UK.Grow with us – Your ResponsibilitiesDesign, build and deploy robotic lab workflows that integrate liquid handlers, incubators, imaging systems, analytical instruments and sensors into robust, end‐to‐end automated workflows.Develop and implement orchestration and scheduling solutions to coordinate multiple devices and robots, enabling ...