Staff Software Engineer, Core Systems — Edge Kubernetes

Burns Sheehan Limited

City Of London

Hybrid

GBP 130,000 - 170,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Burns Sheehan Ltd is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer (Core Systems) to design and build the central scheduling and resource-allocation components for a robotics and life sciences platform in London. The role combines hands-on coding with technical leadership in a small, high-autonomy team.

You'll work across Go and Python, tackle complex optimisation problems, and ensure real-time coordination of constrained resources on edge Kubernetes deployments.

Qualifications

Strong backend and distributed systems experience.
Experience with Go and Python for production systems.
Expertise in optimisation, scheduling and resource allocation.
Hands-on with Kubernetes and edge/distributed environments.

Responsibilities

Design core scheduling, routing and resource-allocation systems behind the platform.
Solve complex optimisation problems using modelling and solvers.
Build distributed, event-driven systems operating in real time.
Work across Go and Python as core logic moves to Go.
Design systems running on Kubernetes in edge environments.
Lead architectural decisions and raise engineering quality.
Mentor engineers and influence best practices.
Collaborate with Product and customers to translate solutions into outcomes.

Skills

Python

Optimisation modelling

Scheduling

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Leadership

Architecture thinking

Tools

Kubernetes

Google OR-Tools

Gurobi

NATS JetStream

Kafka

Job description

You'll work across Go and Python, tackle complex optimisation problems, and ensure real-time coordination of constrained resources on edge Kubernetes deployments.

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