Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Go & Distributed Systems

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of distributed agents across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments powering modern AI infrastructure. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role with ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

A deep systems engineering background and strong Linux networking knowledge are required to drive

Qualifications

5+ years of dedicated experience in infrastructure engineering, platform development, or low-level systems engineering.
Production Golang mastery: clean, concurrent, and maintainable Go code.
Deep Linux kernel networking stack understanding.
Experience with BGP, VXLAN/EVPN topologies, NAT, ACLs.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and development of high-performance infrastructure agents written in Golang.
Build systems managing L2/L3 networking, routing, switching, VXLAN/EVPN overlays, NAT, ACLs, and policy enforcement.
Design scalable telemetry, observability, and monitoring pipelines.
Implement resilient communication mechanisms using gRPC and event‑driven architectures.
Ensure agents operate efficiently across servers, switches, and SmartNIC/DPU environments.
Optimize systems for performance, resiliency, scalability, and low local resource utilisation.
Mentor junior engineers and participate in architecture reviews.