Data Platform & Distributed Systems Engineer — Hybrid

CGG SA; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work with up to 2 days at home

22 days annual leave with holiday buy‑

Bonus scheme

Competitive salary

Job summary

Viridien is seeking a Software Developer - Data Platform & Distributed Systems to contribute to the design and development of a distributed, microservices-based platform supporting data cataloguing, metadata management, and high-volume transactional workflows.

You will work across the backend stack, building scalable services and APIs, designing efficient data models, and optimising performance in a Kubernetes environment with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Redis.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building backend services and distributed systems.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka) and caching (Redis).
• Strong focus on scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Backend Development & APIs: design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices with robust APIs.
• Data & Performance: model data efficiently and optimise read/write workloads.
• Platform & Infrastructure: contribute to CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes deployments.
• Architecture & Reliability: participate in system design to ensure reliability and observability.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Golang

Observability

Leadership

High throughput systems

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Viridien is seeking a Software Developer - Data Platform & Distributed Systems to contribute to the design and development of a distributed, microservices-based platform supporting data cataloguing, metadata management, and high-volume transactional workflows.

You will work across the backend stack, building scalable services and APIs, designing efficient data models, and optimising performance in a Kubernetes environment with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Redis.