Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Coordinates hotel engineering maintenance requests, purchase orders, invoices, procurement, compliance records, safety documentation, preventative maintenance schedules, and engineering projects. The role liaises with contractors, suppliers, and hotel departments while providing administrative support and service to guests and colleagues. Technical knowledge of HVAC, BMS, and fire and life safety systems is required, alongside engineering and health and safety qualifications.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for scalable backend services, APIs, data processing, and production operations. Own delivery across the software lifecycle, establish quality and reliability practices, partner with Product and AI/ML teams, manage priorities and risks, coach engineers, recruit talent, and build an inclusive culture. The role requires strong backend, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and people leadership experience.

Manage and coach a distributed team of Support Engineers operating 24/7. Co-own support KPIs, quality, processes, triage, escalations, incidents, and post-mortems. Remain technically hands-on by troubleshooting APIs, SDKs, and logs. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership, communicate performance, identify training needs, and improve operational excellence across customer support.

Lead and grow an engineering team to build and operate the M&S Identity Platform. Own architecture, scalable distributed systems, authentication journeys, deployments and DevOps practices. Drive agile delivery, technical standards, quality, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration with product and delivery stakeholders.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing team, oversee project delivery, provide technical guidance, and enhance software quality and architecture across the M&S Identity Platform.

Conduct and publish original research in artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, robotics, digital twins, and related engineering disciplines. Develop and deliver undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development teaching. Supervise PhD students, contribute to curriculum development, pursue research grants, engage with industry and policy partners, and support university management, enterprise, knowledge transfer, and inclusion initiatives.

Manages renewable energy asset onboarding, additional-services projects, cyber assessments, contractor oversight, compliance, budgets, and operational improvements across wind, solar, and battery storage portfolios. Coordinates with technical, finance, control center, commercial, and operational technology teams while supporting safety, quality, environmental, and performance standards.

Leads the UK&I Data Engineering team, setting technical strategy and overseeing delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities. Drives Azure and Databricks cloud modernization, data governance, security, privacy, compliance, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include team leadership, talent development, workforce planning, cross-functional stakeholder management, and collaboration with global engineering, product, analytics, architecture, and operations teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of a composable, API-first Core Commerce Platform powering checkout, payments, OMS, inventory availability, loyalty, and post-order experiences. Drive integration of packaged solutions (SFCC, Fluent Commerce), payments, social and agentic commerce, and AI-native capabilities. Own SLAs, reliability, security (PCI-DSS), roadmap, and engineering standards while building and leading high-performing, on-site platform teams.

Lead Cloud Platform and SRE teams, guiding infrastructure strategy, Kubernetes operations, platform reliability, developer tooling, and technical growth. Own SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, observability, incident remediation, and secure cloud environments. Drive self-service infrastructure, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and platform adoption while balancing stability with developer velocity. Partner cross-functionally to communicate technical decisions and build scalable, resilient systems.

Lead a remote platform engineering team responsible for core testing capabilities. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, build agentic and LLM-powered workflows, partner with product on roadmap delivery, and contribute hands-on to production code. Own reliability, observability, production support, application security, engineering standards, and team development while improving system scalability and reducing technical debt.

Leads quality engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences. Designs scalable automation frameworks, develops functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test suites, and integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Validates accessibility, performance, reliability, and cross-device behavior; investigates defects, analyzes quality metrics, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted testing practices.

Design, build, optimize, and support scalable consumer-facing mobile applications across iOS and Android using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Develop native integrations, reusable components, secure architectures, API integrations, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to releases and Agile delivery, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive mobile engineering excellence, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.