19 of 19 Distributed Systems Jobs in the West Midlands

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 ...

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 ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
WHAT WE DO Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems design, and production excellence. In this VP role, you will help engineer highly reliable, observable, and resilient platforms that support critical business services at scale. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams … improve our production system architecture, facilitate fast delivery of new services, and reduce downtime. This role is for software engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed system problems, building tools and platforms that make teams more effective, and championing SRE principles (such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Vice President

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom WHAT WE DO Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems design, and production excellence. In this VP role, you will help engineer highly reliable, observable, and resilient platforms that support critical business services … improve our production system architecture, facilitate fast delivery of new services, and reduce downtime. This role is for software engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed system problems, building tools and platforms that make teams more effective, and championing SRE principles (such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
National Grid
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
secure, scalable software solutions across both cloud and on‐premise environments. Reporting to the Head of Software Engineering, you’ll shape platforms, tooling, and systems that support our wider development and technology teams.You’ll play a key role in architectural decisions, defining and upholding engineering standards, and actively managing … high‐quality delivery across the team.Proactively identify and manage technical debt, embedding prevention and reduction into planning and implementation.Monitor and optimise large‐scale distributed systems to ensure performance, stability, and continuous uptime.Build and enhance automation for configuration management, provisioning, and deployment to streamline operations.Implement strong security practices, ensuring ...

Senior Software Development Engineer

Location
Dudley, England, United Kingdom
lead 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 … 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 ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£63,824 - £80,158 per annum
Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working … Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include: * Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes. * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments. * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/ ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working … Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include: * Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes. * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments. * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/ ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Sainsbury's Bank
Location
Coventry, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
retailer.About the teamYou will be leading a team playing a vital role within Sainsbury’s Retail Store Operations domain, managing in-store stock systems that ensure products are accurately sequenced and placed across stores. The team keeps critical in-store services running smoothly, as any downtime directly affects product … meetings, developing technical roadmaps, and driving enhancements in engineering processes.Keen enthusiasm for promoting and integrating AI technologies within engineering teams.Solid technical foundation, with Scalable Distributed Systems & Backend Engineering.Strong grasp of API design and management, event-driven architectures, testing practices, observability and operations, database technologies We are committed ...

AI Engineer, Malvern, PA, US

Location
Malvern, England, United Kingdom
databases and embedding models. Experience deploying AI solutions on AWS cloud platforms. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable backend architectures. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Sainsbury's
Location
Exhall, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
About the team You will be leading a team playing a vital role within Sainsbury's Retail Store Operations domain, managing in-store stock systems that ensure products are accurately sequenced and placed across stores. The team keeps critical in-store services running smoothly, as any downtime directly affects … technical roadmaps, and driving enhancements in engineering processes. Keen enthusiasm for promoting and integrating AI technologies within engineering teams. Solid technical foundation, with Scalable Distributed Systems & Backend Engineering. Strong grasp of API design and management, event-driven architectures, testing practices, observability and operations, database technologies We are committed ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns … Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working ...

Pega LSA (Lead System Architect)

Hiring Organisation
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
Location
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
industry best practices. * Work closely with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and translate them into scalable technical solutions. * Design complex integrations with external systems using APIs, SOAP, REST, MQ, and database technologies. * Guide performance tuning, security implementation, and scalability planning. * Support project estimations, technical planning, and risk management. … Service o Integration Frameworks (REST, SOAP, MQ) o Performance Tuning and Security o DevOps and CI/CD Practices * Strong understanding of scalable and distributed systems architecture. * Experience leading large-scale digital transformation projects. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Preferred Skills * Experience within UK Public Sector, Banking ...

Senior Elixir Engineer - Distributed Systems & LiveView

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Marine Systems plc are seeking a Senior Elixir Engineer to help shape the next generation of our platform for sovereign territory surveillance. You’ll contribute to distributed, fault‐tolerant Elixir services and LiveView interfaces, collaborating with engineers to improve architecture and deployment models. Based in the Bristol area ...

Senior Vulnerability Researcher

Hiring Organisation
UK Telecoms lab
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time
Build & Experiment in a World-Class Lab - Operate within a cutting-edge research environment where experimentation is encouraged. Youll have the freedom to deconstruct systems, explore their limits, and rebuild them more securelyat scale. Alongside this, youll design and evolve the infrastructure that underpins advanced telecom security research. Successful … work in. About You You are a highly experienced and deeply technical security researcher, driven by curiosity and a passion for understanding how complex systems workand how they break. You thrive in ambiguity, lead with confidence, and have a track record of delivering meaningful research outcomes. Your Skills & Experience ...

VP, SRE: Architect Resilient, Scalable Systems

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Sachs is seeking a Vice President in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within Core Engineering at the Birmingham location. You will lead reliability efforts across distributed systems, driving SLOs, observability, and incident response while shaping scalable, automated platforms. This role emphasizes design reviews, reliability improvements, and reducing toil through ...

Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Version 1
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
heavily Java-focused, operating within a client ecosystem that relies extensively on Kafka, Kubernetes/OpenShift, caching solutions, REST APIs, and high-throughput distributed systems. You will bring solid, practical experience in backend Java development and a keen interest in scalable distributed systems.ResponsibilitiesTechnical DeliveryDesign, develop, and maintain backend … components in Java, with a focus on performance and resilience.Contribute hands-on to features across messaging, caching, and distributed processing layers.Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to sequencing, recovery, message failures, and large-volume processing.Support releases, deployments, and production stability activities.Adhere to CI/CD pipelines, code quality standards ...

Google Cloud / Java – AI Software Engineer

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type: Direct Hire Join our client’s Sales Domain team and help reshape how enterprise sales technology works — architecting the cloud-native systems that power the full quote-to-invoice lifecycle while pioneering how generative AI gets built into real, production-grade business tools. This is a rare … into sales applications. Partner with innovation and data teams to operationalize AI into production systems. Guide architecture decisions on APIs, event-driven design, and distributed systems. Mentor developers on cloud-native, microservices, and AI integration patterns. Conduct code reviews and champion CI/CD and DevSecOps best practices. Help ...

API Cloud Engineer

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
where you come in. Our client is looking for a Cloud Engineer to architect the API ecosystem that powers seamless, secure interactions between backend systems and the applications people rely on every day. This is a chance to shape how data moves, how developers build, and how technology scales. …/CD pipelines using Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins. Implement threat protection, rate limiting, and encryption standards. Monitor API performance and troubleshoot issues across distributed systems. Partner with application teams on API contracts and architectural best practices. Maintain technical documentation, including API specs and portal content. What ...