Working model: On-site — 4+ days per week
Employment: Full-time
The Opportunity
What happens when your data grows 100x?
This is an opportunity to join a high-growth AI company building the core infrastructure behind a data-intensive AI platform .
The engineering team is responsible for the systems that store, index, query and process massive amounts of multimodal data — including video, images, 3D sensor data and documents.
This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving difficult problems around scale, performance, reliability and distributed systems .
You’ll have significant ownership, taking projects from architecture and design through to implementation, deployment, monitoring and optimisation.
What You'll Be Working On
- Designing and building distributed systems at scale
- Building storage, indexing and querying systems
- Designing performant APIs and protocols
- Working with databases, caching, queues and replication
- Solving problems around scalability, consistency and reliability
- Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks
- Making architectural decisions for systems designed to scale significantly
- Improving engineering standards through code reviews, testing and knowledge sharing
What We're Looking For
- Strong production experience with Python or TypeScript
- Strong experience with Go, Rust, C++, Java or another statically typed language
- Proven experience building and owning distributed systems in production
- Strong understanding of:
- Databases
- Replication
- Queuing
- Caching
- Consistency
- Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms and core CS fundamentals
- Experience taking systems through design, development, deployment, monitoring and optimisation
- Strong understanding of system performance and failure modes
- Comfortable working autonomously on ambiguous and technically complex problems
The Ideal Background
You could come from a range of technically demanding environments, including:
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Distributed Systems Engineer in London employer: Albert Bow Limited
At Albert Bow Limited, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer in London, you will not only have the opportunity to work directly with clients but also to contribute to cutting-edge AI solutions that make a real impact. We offer competitive benefits, continuous professional development, and a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and growth.
