Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Leads EMEA sales engineering strategy and a team of sales engineers. Partners with sales and customers on technical evaluations, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, solution design, proposals, and trusted-advisor relationships. Oversees hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical collateral, metrics, budgets, and customer feedback to product and engineering teams. Requires extensive EMEA sales engineering leadership experience and expertise in cloud, container, and security technologies.

Lead and grow multiple engineering teams delivering personalization, search and recommendation systems. Set technical strategy, ensure reliability and SLI/SLOs, drive DevOps and CI/CD excellence, partner with Product and Data Science, hire and develop engineering leaders, and own product-group outcomes.

The Head of Software Engineering will lead and inspire teams, driving technical excellence, innovation, and agile practices while delivering complex systems and solutions for personalisation and customer-centric environments.

Associate software developer who will train and join a specialized software team, contributing to design, development, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. The role involves collaboration across hardware, embedded software, integration, algorithms, and AI/ML teams; completing assigned work; and documenting technical work and learnings.

Leads and develops Ciena’s Edinburgh software engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery planning, risk mitigation, technical reviews, and cross-functional alignment. The role drives predictable software delivery, continuous improvement, product quality, scalability, availability, and maintainability across a global networking organization. Candidates need extensive software development experience in networking or technically complex domains, strong people leadership, and the ability to deliver complex software through engineering teams.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Design and deliver end-to-end features for DAP onboarding and repository/background flows. Build autonomous and scheduled agents that act on customer codebases, improve onboarding experience, collaborate on shared interfaces, review code and designs, and contribute to an async-first, distributed team's technical quality and ownership culture.

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.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Leads the global Site Reliability Engineering organization, defining enterprise reliability strategy, governance, architecture, observability, automation, resilience, and production engineering standards. Builds and mentors SRE leadership, partners with product and platform engineering, establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, production readiness reviews, and reliability scorecards, and drives cloud platform availability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence through engineering automation.

Leads and develops the Software Engineering team, overseeing people management, engineering operations, releases, production incidents, code quality, governance, technical investigations, SQL data work, and technical stakeholder collaboration. The role provides technical direction, supports delivery planning, reduces technical debt, promotes engineering standards, and drives continuous improvement across software development practices.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

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.

Leads a global software and quality engineering organization responsible for enterprise data integration products across mainframe, distributed, hybrid, and cloud environments. Oversees engineering execution, software quality, modernization, customer escalations, operational readiness, innovation, and AI-enabled practices. Partners with product, architecture, and support teams while developing talent, managing performance, fostering accountability, and ensuring reliable delivery of business-critical software.

AECOM seeks Geotechnical Engineers/Geologists to join their Ground Engineering team, offering opportunities for career growth and innovation in diverse sectors.

Reviews and evaluates engineering, infrastructure, and platform documents and work products for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, consistency, and relevance. Provides structured feedback, identifies errors and gaps, compares technical approaches, and follows defined evaluation frameworks. Requires independent work, strong communication, analytical ability, and professional engineering judgment. The role is fully remote and supports varied technical evaluation projects as an independent contractor.

As the Analytics Engineering Lead, you'll set data standards, manage data architecture, ensure data governance, and drive analytics strategy while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Assistant Professor responsible for conducting and publishing robotics and artificial intelligence research, securing research funding, supervising PhD students, and developing industry and policy partnerships. The role also involves designing and delivering undergraduate, postgraduate, CPD, and practical robotics laboratory teaching; assessing students; contributing to programme development; supporting inclusive education; and participating in departmental administration, enterprise, knowledge transfer, outreach, and EDI initiatives.

Leads data engineering teams building scalable data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and data products on Databricks and AWS. Oversees hiring, coaching, delivery planning, architecture, platform reliability, SLAs, incident response, monitoring, and cost optimization. Partners cross-functionally with architects, product managers, analytics, and engineering teams to establish technical strategy, governance, and operational excellence.

Lead technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; resolve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentor engineers across teams.

Leads the DTC Platform Engineering organization, overseeing cloud foundations, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, integrations, quality engineering, performance, security, developer tooling, and AI-enabled engineering platforms. Defines multi-year platform strategy, infrastructure and security standards, self-service capabilities, and delivery governance. Partners with product engineering, security, finance, and infrastructure teams while building and mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient software delivery.

Lead and develop approximately 12 software engineers across three product teams. Own engineering performance, career progression, promotions, hiring, onboarding, team health, and management processes. Coach engineers, address performance issues, improve career frameworks and review cycles, and maintain a strong remote culture. Partner with Tech Leads and the Head of Engineering while providing sufficient technical guidance to understand code and engineering discussions without owning technical decisions.

Leads software engineering teams and technical projects for a mission-critical emergency dispatch platform. Provides architecture direction, conducts code reviews, guides C# backend, database, and web development, and oversees testing and delivery. Manages Scrum and Agile execution, mentors teams on AI development tools, fosters collaboration and continuous learning, and partners with senior leaders and external stakeholders. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK and Poland offices and requires security clearance eligibility.

Owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; remains hands-on with coding, prototyping, reviews, debugging, and production support. Leads architecture decisions, resolves complex technical problems, improves engineering quality, drives critical initiatives, and mentors engineers across teams.