Top Python Jobs in Glasgow

Support wastewater modelling projects through model building, calibration, verification, data analysis, reporting, technical documentation, and design optioneering. Collaborate with field, design, and multidisciplinary teams while assisting with health and safety processes, project meetings, budgets, and progress reporting. The role provides supervised on-the-job training and development in wastewater modelling and water infrastructure engineering.

Lead design and implementation of Spark and Livy-based features for large-scale distributed data processing. Contribute to Apache projects, develop in Java/Scala/Python, debug production clusters, improve infrastructure, and collaborate across distributed teams to deliver enterprise-grade data engineering capabilities.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise network solutions across routing, switching, firewalls and wireless. Produce low-level designs, migration and implementation plans. Deploy, test, validate and optimise Cisco-based infrastructure (data centre and campus), troubleshoot complex issues, run PoCs/labs, and produce documentation while collaborating with project managers, security teams and stakeholders. Integrate network designs with compute and storage platforms.

Build and extend the platform layer: design shared backend services and APIs, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product teams to remove platform bottlenecks, mentor engineers, shape architecture and migrations, and write high-quality fullstack code with a backend focus.

Administer and operate the NebulaOne AI platform and SIAP-delivered applications, including user access, configuration, licensing, monitoring, dashboards, maintenance, upgrades, incident resolution, and operational reporting. Maintain playbooks and recovery documentation, support automation workflows, deliver user training, and collaborate with developers, vendors, and university stakeholders to ensure reliable business-as-usual service delivery.

Develop and lead scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud-based applications for commercial planning. Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, champion testing and DevSecOps, and drive observability and incident management. Partner with stakeholders and architecture teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering strategy, transformation programs, and innovative AI-enabled development practices.

Lead the development, testing, debugging, and technical design of scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud applications. Establish engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, incident management, and operational excellence. Partner with architects, product managers, business stakeholders, and external partners to deliver commercial planning solutions. Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled development practices.

Deliver and support healthcare system integrations across the full project lifecycle, including discovery, design, interface development, testing, deployment, go-live, documentation, and operational handover. Develop healthcare interfaces using Mirth Connect and standards such as HL7 v2, REST, JSON, and XML. Diagnose integration issues using logs, code, databases, APIs, and configuration. Collaborate with customers, project teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders while contributing to reusable integration patterns, code-first practices, peer reviews, and support activities.

Design, deploy, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based AI infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Linux systems, bare-metal servers, data-centre infrastructure, NVIDIA GPU workloads, infrastructure automation, security access, platform governance, troubleshooting, documentation, customer and vendor collaboration, and on-call operational support.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Operate and scale high-throughput MariaDB/MySQL clusters supporting globally distributed financial services. Responsibilities include database tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, automation, observability, security, containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and partnership with engineering teams. The role also participates in on-call rotations and improves operational reliability through SRE practices, documentation, measurable KPIs, and preventative engineering.

Designs and maintains automated UI, API, database, regression, integration, end-to-end, performance, and load test suites for a SaaS platform. Integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, partners with developers and product teams in agile workflows, uses AI/LLM tools to improve testing efficiency, maintains technical documentation, and drives defect reduction and continuous quality improvement.

Lead and manage software engineering teams, oversee technical delivery, resolve blockers, and maintain development, DevOps, testing, and agile best practices. Work directly with clients to translate requirements into technical briefs, make architectural decisions, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable applications. Provide project updates, mentor engineers, and support effective decision-making across distributed teams.

Design, automate and maintain Azure infrastructure at scale using Terraform and CI/CD. Build pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), enforce security and governance (Azure Policy, RBAC, Key Vault, Entra ID), monitor and optimise workloads, troubleshoot incidents, perform code and architecture reviews, mentor engineers, coordinate delivery, support migrations and onboarding, and participate in on-call rotations.

Architect, develop, integrate, test, debug, and optimize embedded software for diverse hardware platforms using RTOS, bare-metal, Zephyr, and Linux environments. Lead software architecture, system validation, test automation, and multi-threaded application development while collaborating with hardware and software teams. Define test strategies, analyze defects, document designs, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, optimize performance and power usage, and contribute to open-source projects.

Volunteer Associate Editor reviewing ecological and evolutionary research code for clarity, completeness, accessibility, documentation, testing, responsible data handling, and alignment with journal standards. The role involves supporting authors, promoting open and ethical science, following editorial workflows, meeting deadlines, and communicating clearly. It is remote, part-time, institution-based, and expected to average approximately two hours per month over a three-year term.

Design and build scalable applications using Golang while supporting component development, data storage, performance optimization, testing, automation, CI/CD, and cloud deployments. Collaborate with distributed client teams, analyze requirements, contribute to agile delivery, maintain source-control practices, and support technical leaders. The role requires strong communication, code review, and collaborative software development skills.

Design, program, and deploy robotic laboratory workflows integrating robots, liquid handlers, instruments, sensors, and software platforms. Develop orchestration, scheduling, data capture, logging, and traceability solutions for high-throughput experiments. Translate biological protocols into automated workflows, ensure safe and reliable operation, and collaborate with biology, software, data science, and product teams to scale prototypes into production-ready systems.

Lead wastewater modelling projects, mentor junior staff, build and verify models, coordinate field teams, perform health & safety risk assessments, develop technical specifications, produce reports, manage projects, liaise with clients and stakeholders, and support business development.

Lead and grow an SDET team building reliable, scalable cloud storage solutions. Provide technical leadership, design and review architectures, plan sprints, implement deterministic functional and non-functional test suites in CI/CD/CT pipelines, collaborate on product specs, hire and mentor engineers, and continuously improve processes and systems.

Lead engineering ownership of a multi-datacentre ClickHouse estate: cluster ops, schema and query engineering, capacity planning, ingestion correctness, workload isolation, monitoring, backup/recovery, and mentoring a follow-the-sun team. Drive architectural direction, runbooks, and production-ready, observable systems while collaborating with Go capture services and Python analytics pipelines.

Define and maintain cloud platform architecture and standards; lead technical design and delivery of platform capabilities, integrations, and migrations; produce architecture artifacts and roadmaps; participate hands-on in engineering (IaC, automation, containers); review solutions, manage risks, support customers, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, resilience, observability, and regulatory compliance.

Lead a services engineering team to deliver backend systems, APIs, integrations, and operational excellence. Define measurable customer outcomes, guide technical direction across Python/Go/Ruby services, improve reliability, observability, and performance, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Operations to drive impactful results.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Manage and optimise GKE Kubernetes clusters using Terraform; implement GitOps (ArgoCD) and developer golden paths; build infrastructure for safe, scalable deployments; support cloud compliance (SOC2, ISO-27001, Cyber Essentials); produce developer-facing documentation; act as GCP/Kubernetes technical lead and participate in on-call rotation.