Senior Software Engineer

Title: Distributed Systems Engineer (HPC)

London (Hybrid – 1 day/week onsite)

Contract (Initial 3 months, extendable to Dec 2026)

We’re looking for an experienced Distributed Systems Engineer to join an exciting High-Performance Computing (HPC) initiative. This is a unique opportunity to help build the core infrastructure behind a next-generation, GPU-accelerated distributed computing platform.

What You’ll Be Working On

You’ll play a key role in developing resilient, high-throughput backend services that orchestrate workloads across CPU and GPU environments.

Your work will include:

• Designing and building distributed services in Rust
• Developing scalable work queue systems (e.g. Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ)
• Building GPU node orchestration services for data movement
• Creating robust storage lifecycle and indexing services
• Designing performant APIs using gRPC

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Strong experience in Rust for backend systems
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture
• Experience with message queues (Pulsar, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• gRPC / API design experience
• AWS-based service deployment experience

Nice to Have:

• HPC environments (RDMA, Lustre)
• GPU architecture and CUDA ecosystem
• High-performance data and networking systems

…