Senior Python Engineer: Real-Time, High-Performance Systems

Marks Sattin; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Aerospace & Defence Technology Organisation in Bristol is seeking an Applications Development Engineer (Python) to help modernise and scale high-speed software platforms used in critical programmes. You will design and optimise Python services, contribute to scalable distributed systems, and operate containerised workloads in Kubernetes to ensure performance and reliability.

Join a high-performance engineering team tackling near real-time workloads, with exposure to cloud platforms and

Qualifications

• Design high-performance Python services and APIs for near real-time workloads.
• Profile and optimise applications for latency, throughput and resource utilisation.
• Architect scalable, distributed systems balancing performance and maintainability.
• Build containerised services within Kubernetes ensuring reliability and observability.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform and domain teams to deliver robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise high-performance Python services and APIs supporting near real-time workloads.
• Contribute to the architecture of scalable, resilient distributed systems, balancing performance, maintainability and operational excellence.
• Profile, troubleshoot and tune applications to improve latency, throughput and resource utilisation.
• Build and operate containerised services within Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliability, observability and security.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, platform and domain teams to deliver robust solutions across the software lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Architecture

Performance tuning

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Event-driven systems

API development

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

WebSockets

FastAPI

Flask

Django

Docker

Job description

Global Aerospace & Defence Technology Organisation in Bristol is seeking an Applications Development Engineer (Python) to help modernise and scale high-speed software platforms used in critical programmes. You will design and optimise Python services, contribute to scalable distributed systems, and operate containerised workloads in Kubernetes to ensure performance and reliability.

Join a high-performance engineering team tackling near real-time workloads, with exposure to cloud platforms and