Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems

Durlston Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Durlston Partners in London (On-site) is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the flagship platform. You will own core technical domains, design distributed services, and guide the data layer to provide real-time insights from diverse sensor feeds.

You will stay hands-on daily, mentor a small engineering team, and influence coding standards, testing, and DevSecOps practices with a security-first mindset. Equity available, base up to £150k.

Qualifications

• Design distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high reliability.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, memory, and performance considerations.
• Security as a first-class concern in all layers and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own a core technical domain of the flagship platform end to end, architecture, hard technical decisions, and delivery.
• Design distributed, fault tolerant services that stay correct and performant under adversarial, resource constrained, and intermittently connected conditions.
• Build the data layer that turns raw multi source sensor feeds into a coherent, queryable, real-time picture.
• Set the engineering bar: system design, code review, testing strategy, and the DevSecOps and database practices the team builds on.
• Operate as a player / coach, hands-on in the codebase daily, while mentoring and levelling up a small team of strong engineers.

Skills

C++

Rust

Java

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Durlston Partners in London (On-site) is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the flagship platform. You will own core technical domains, design distributed services, and guide the data layer to provide real-time insights from diverse sensor feeds.

You will stay hands-on daily, mentor a small engineering team, and influence coding standards, testing, and DevSecOps practices with a security-first mindset. Equity available, base up to £150k.