Top Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Lead design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure to improve reliability and operational efficiency. Drive complex incident management, integrate AI-assisted reliability workflows across the SDLC, validate AI outputs and data sensitivity, lead cross-team projects, influence stakeholders with measurable reliability outcomes, and translate analysis into business recommendations.

Develop secure, scalable production software for a global KYC and risk assessment data platform. Responsibilities include system design, data-intensive application development, architecture, code review, mentoring, automation, observability, and cross-team technical leadership. The role requires expertise in Python or PySpark, cloud-native technologies, large-scale data processing, databases, APIs, microservices, orchestration, and data governance, with preferred experience in Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg, and LLM infrastructure.

Lead and contribute to full-stack software design, development, and production support. Drive technical evaluations, architecture, AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, and resilient, secure SDLC across teams in financial services.

The Principal Rail Traction Power / Substation Engineer will lead the delivery of traction power and substation design projects, ensuring compliance with standards, providing technical leadership, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Lead and mentor Glasgow-based feature teams to design, develop, test, and deploy cloud-native software. Oversee delivery, enforce engineering standards, adopt agentic AI-enabled automation across the SDLC, collaborate with stakeholders, resolve issues, and evaluate new technologies while ensuring security, reliability, and documentation.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead and drive the Observability Platforms engineering area, delivering cross-domain observability and AIOps solutions. Own technical design, cloud (AWS) implementations, automation-as-code, vendor evaluations, governance, and stakeholder influence while managing and scaling engineering teams for reliability and operational excellence.

Lead and grow a Europe-based full-stack engineering team building the Affirm App and direct-to-consumer products across international markets. Own the full software lifecycle, set technical roadmaps, hire and develop engineers, ensure reliability and scalability for millions of users, and drive cross-functional alignment with product, design, data, and business partners.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Lead and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure for enterprise-scale AWS workloads. Architect and implement infrastructure changes, drive projects, support 24/7 follow-the-sun operations, partner with product teams to remediate issues, and apply automation, observability, and responsible AI-assisted development practices.

Lead a 0-to-1 pilot team to find and fix high-leverage SDLC friction, instrument system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, latency), recruit and mentor four engineers, design and implement durable fixes, and drive adoption across engineering teams while reporting metric-driven outcomes to leadership.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

A 24-month graduate engineering programme with four rotations across software, automation and control teams. The graduate will develop engineering and technology skills, contribute to power conversion and energy storage solutions, and gain exposure to project management and quality functions. The programme includes mentorship, professional registration support, specialized training, and networking opportunities. Applicants need a 2:1 degree in software engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, robotics, mechatronics, or a related field, plus unrestricted UK work authorization and eligibility for security clearance.

Lead strategy, design, and evolution of enterprise developer tooling and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Improve reliability, scale, security, and usability across self-hosted and SaaS tooling. Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to reduce friction, drive automation and AI-enabled workflows, influence standards, and deliver platform improvements that boost developer productivity.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Deliver and lead ground engineering projects across the UK from concept to operation. Provide geotechnical design, ensure compliance with UK standards and codes, offer analytical and strategic expertise, mentor teams, travel to site locations, and support chartership progression.

Lead and manage the electrical engineering team for power generation products, overseeing design, development, and project allocation while ensuring safety and compliance standards are met.

Manage engineering compliance and technical documentation for capital and site-led projects in a beverage manufacturing facility. Represent engineering in project meetings, oversee technical files and CMMS records, coordinate CEAP governance, verify machinery safety and statutory compliance, and facilitate operational handovers. The role also resolves commissioning issues with contractors and OEMs while applying continuous improvement methods to improve asset integration and site OEE.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, build, release and operate scalable international pricing platforms. Drive technical strategy, delivery, operational excellence and collaboration with Product, Delivery and Architecture to support global expansion and flexible market pricing.

Lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned to business goals. Oversee delivery, enforce technical standards, drive architecture and DevOps best practices, and manage stakeholders, vendors and partners to achieve successful outcomes.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable commercial trading and planning solutions. Provide technical direction, ensure operational stability, enforce engineering standards, manage vendors, and drive delivery excellence across cloud-native systems.

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, build, release, and run international pricing platforms. Ensure operational stability, deliver high-quality cloud-first solutions, drive engineering excellence, DORA standards, and cross-functional requirements like security and performance. Partner with Product and Delivery to meet business goals and enable scalable pricing across international markets.

Lead and scale engineering teams building multi-tenant Voice AI, Agent QA, analytics, auto-learning, and workforce management platforms. Own architecture for high-throughput voice data systems, real-time pipelines, telephony integrations, optimization algorithms, and enterprise compliance. Recruit and develop senior engineers and managers, establish engineering standards, guide cross-functional roadmap alignment, and deliver reliable production systems across global geographies.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.