Senior / Staff Systems Engineer

Our client is building a next-generation infrastructure platform to orchestrate high-performance compute workloads across distributed environments.

This is a systems-first engineering role, focused on designing and building the underlying infrastructure that enables low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems at scale.

This is not an AI/ML role - we're looking for engineers who build the systems that AI workloads run on, not the models themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and building distributed systems across multiple nodes
• Developing low-latency communication layers (RPC, networking)
• Working on infrastructure provisioning, resource management, and scheduling
• Building control plane / orchestration layers for compute workloads
• Optimising performance, concurrency, and system efficiency
• Working across cloud, bare-metal, and hybrid environments

• Strong background in systems engineering and distributed infrastructure
• Experience with networking, storage, or provisioning systems
• Solid understanding of concurrency, memory, and performance optimisation
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Proficiency in C++ or other systems-level languages
• Track record of building infrastructure or platform-level systems (not just applications)

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-performance compute environments
• Exposure to GPU or large-scale compute workloads
• Familiarity with Linux internals or containerisation
• Experience in early-stage or highly technical teams

Engineers who:

• Prefer systems and infrastructure problems over product work
• Enjoy working close to performance, hardware, and distributed systems
• Want to have real ownership and impact in a small team

Pay: £110,000.00-£150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Work from home