Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions’ Avigilon Alta Video brings cloud video security systems to the next level. Alta’s cloud-native video security platform delivers industry-leading analytics and exceptional operational insights to help organizations observe, oversee, and analyze their environments to protect people, property, and places in real time.

The Alta Video Engineering Team injects intelligence into our approach to safety and across every solution we engineer. Our team designs, builds, and scales intelligent video microservices and distributed cloud infrastructure that empower human decision-makers at the center, actively advancing our mission of "Solving for safer".

Our engineering hub is based in the heart of Edinburgh city centre, operating under a purposeful hybrid model with two collaborative days together on-site each week.Job Description

We are looking for a collaborative Software Engineer to join our Avigilon Alta Video team in Edinburgh. In this role, you will help design and build resilient, distributed cloud services that power our enterprise video management platform. We foster an inclusive, human, and forward-thinking engineering culture where every voice shapes the future of our product architecture.

We embrace practical problem solving, continuous improvement, and cross-functional teamwork. If you bring strong software engineering fundamentals and equivalent practical experience, we encourage you to apply and help us build scalable solutions that make communities safer every day.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & System Design

• Build, test, and deploy resilient microservices for our high-throughput cloud video management system
• Help to ensure system scalability and operational efficiency across distributed cloud environments
• Partner with product managers and architects to refine user stories into actionable, high-quality technical implementations

Engineering Excellence & Code Quality

• Champion clean architecture and testing standards through thoughtful peer reviews and shared best practices
• Analyse production metrics and telemetry to optimize backend services and resolve complex performance bottlenecks
• Collaborate within agile teams across the UK and internationally to maintain steady, dependable deployment cadences

Innovation & Continuous Growth

• Dedicate development time to explore emerging technologies, tools, and technical prototypes
• Foster an inclusive environment of learning, mentorship, and knowledge sharing across engineering disciplines

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a technical discipline
• Solid software engineering experience building distributed backend systems and services
• Able to collaborate in-person with the team at our Edinburgh office

Technical Expertise

• Programming Languages to design clean, high-performance services using Golang, Python, C, C++, Rust, or C#
• API Development to build and integrate robust RESTful or gRPC web services
• Database Engineering to interact with, manage, and model relational or distributed NoSQL databases
• English Proficiency to collaborate and communicate technical concepts clearly across international teams

Professional Experience

• Agile Collaboration to deliver incremental value within cross-functional product squads

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

• Hands-on experience developing and deploying services within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or alternative public cloud platforms
• Experience or interest in leveraging modern AI developer tooling to assist software engineering workflows
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as TypeScript or React

The Avigilon Alta Video teams default to programming using Go for backend and Typescript for frontend, but also use a wide variety of different languages and frameworks. It is not expected that you would be familiar with Go (or any of the other languages we use) but you should be enthusiastic and willing to learn new things!

We are looking for a team player who thinks holistically, enjoys solving complex problems and thrives in an agile, cross functional environment.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace spawns innovation – the more diverse our employees are, the more ideas and talents we have to excel as a leader in the technology sector. If you would like to be part of a dynamic team of people who are ambitious, focused, and hardworking then we look forward to meeting you!

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• 10% time (1 day in every 10 to pursue innovation and personal development).
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options.
• Private medical care.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
• Well known companies discount schemes.

Travel Requirements

NoneRelocation Provided

NonePosition Type

ExperiencedReferral Payment Plan

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