- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
Responsibilities
We are representing a confidential cloud infrastructure organization seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the architectural evolution of their platform supporting advanced engineering simulation and AI workflows. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll lead critical initiatives across the full software lifecycle while mentoring the engineering team.
Technical Leadership & Architecture:
- Drive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture
- Design and implement architecture to enable rapid deployment of AI products and integrations
- Own technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals
Hands-On Development:
- Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components
- Build and optimize distributed compute services
- Implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns
- Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services
- Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling
Team Mentorship & Collaboration:
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the entire team
- Establish engineering best practices and architectural patterns
- Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Guide technical decision-making and prioritization across multiple teams
- Interview and onboard new engineers
What We're Looking For
Required Experience & Skills:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role
- Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end
- Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services
- Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (OAuth) and secure-by-default practices
- Expert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale
- Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar)
- Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure and GCP beneficial)
- Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar)
- Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies
- Excellence in technical communication and stakeholder management
Key Qualities:
- Technical excellence with clean, maintainable code and scalable system design
- Operational rigor with focus on testing, deployments, reliability, and monitoring
- Pragmatic problem-solving that balances short-term delivery with long-term goals
- Strong leadership with proactive problem identification
- Mentorship mindset focused on elevating others
- Ownership mentality with full responsibility for outcomes
- Customer-focused approach to success
How We Work with You
Our talent team at Get A Job.ai screens all applications and coordinates directly with our client throughout the hiring process. When you apply through our platform, a recruiter will review your background and arrange an initial conversation. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to the client and guide you through their interview process.
Important: Please apply only through Get A Job.ai. Do not contact the client directly, as this role is being filled exclusively through our recruiting partnership.
Pay
This position is based in London. Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.
Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or veteran status.
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A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
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Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
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Listing facts
- Role Staff Software Engineer – Physical AI
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted August 31, 2026
- Apply by September 30, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (515 words)
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