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# Software Engineer - Research Platforms

- **Company:** Qube Research & Technologies
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Rust (Programming Language), Concurrency, Golang
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-research-platforms-qube-research-technologies-10415917

## About the Role

* At least five years of experience building and operating production software systems.

 * Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, C++, Rust, Java or a similar language.

 * Experience designing distributed systems at scale, with an understanding of performance, concurrency, fault tolerance and reliability.

 * Experience building services or platforms used by other engineers.

 * Knowledge of large-scale storage, data movement, or data-intensive computing workloads.

 * Understanding of how storage and networking affect distributed system performance.

 * Experience working across cloud and on-premises environments.

## Description

You will join the Data Engineering team, which builds software that enables Quantitative Researchers to access and use data across cloud and on-premises computing environments. The team works with other engineering groups to support data-intensive research workloads.

Your Future Role within QRT

You will:

 * Design, build and operate distributed software that manages data across research environments.

 * Enable reliable and efficient data access for large-scale compute workloads.

 * Address challenges involving data movement, locality, performance and scale.

 * Develop services and tooling used by Quantitative Researchers and engineering teams.

 * Improve the security, observability and resilience of data systems.

 * Work with researchers and engineers to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions.

 * Own systems from design and implementation through production operation.