Distributed Compute Engineer (Python) — Scale-Driven Platform

Hunter Bond

Greater London

On-site

GBP 202,500 - 247,500

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation and bonus structure
World-class engineering environment
Real ownership and influence over systems

Job summary

Hunter Bond is looking for a Distributed Compute Engineer to design and develop systems central to a next-generation compute platform in London. The role involves addressing challenges in resource allocation, fault tolerance, and performance optimisation.

Ideal candidates will possess over 4 years of relevant experience, particularly in Python, and have a solid understanding of distributed systems. The position offers a highly competitive salary, complex technical challenges, and real ownership over impactful infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience building production systems using Python.
  • Proven experience working with distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong understanding of system design, concurrency, and performance optimisation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop systems for orchestrating and executing workloads across distributed environments.
  • Identify inefficiencies in distributed workloads and build systems to eliminate them.
  • Take ownership of key architectural components influencing system communication and scalability.

Skills

Python
Distributed systems
System design
Task scheduling
Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Orchestration frameworks
Data processing systems

Job description

Hunter Bond is looking for a Distributed Compute Engineer to design and develop systems central to a next-generation compute platform in London. The role involves addressing challenges in resource allocation, fault tolerance, and performance optimisation.

Ideal candidates will possess over 4 years of relevant experience, particularly in Python, and have a solid understanding of distributed systems. The position offers a highly competitive salary, complex technical challenges, and real ownership over impactful infrastructure.

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