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Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK
262 open roles for staff and principal engineers in London & the UK as of Nov 14, 2026. Graphcore, DataCamp, Preply, Wayve and Capco have the most. 62 are remote.
- Senior Staff Product EngineerHyperexponential · 🇬🇧London (hybrid)—LeadRustPythonC++
- Staff Product EngineerHyperexponential · 🇬🇧London (hybrid)—LeadRustPythonC++
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer ExperienceCohere · 🇬🇧London$185K - $300KLeadPythonTypeScriptDocker
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Crawler)Perplexity · 🇬🇧London—RustPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff (Web Access Engineer, Crawler)Perplexity · 🇬🇧London—RustGoPython
- Staff Engineer - FintechMews · 🇨🇿🇮🇪🇳🇱Czechia; Ireland; Netherlands; Spain; United Kingdom€80K - €114KLeadAgile
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEAGitLab · 🇮🇪🇦🇹🇫🇷Remote Ireland; Remote, Austria; Remote, France; Remote…—RemoteLeadGoTypeScriptRuby
- Staff EngineerCapital on Tap · 🇬🇧London—Lead.NET
- Staff Systems Engineer - Autonomy & Software (5652)Shield AI · 🇬🇧London, UK—LeadPythonC++
- Principal Database EngineerKraken · 🇬🇧United Kingdom$161K - $359KRemoteLeadRustGoPython
- Staff Product Security EngineerChainguard · 🇬🇧United Kingdom - Remote—RemoteLeadGoPythonGCP
- Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerPing Identity · 🇬🇧UK - Remote—RemoteLeadGoDockerGCP
- Staff Software Engineer - Payment ProcessingCheckout.com · 🇬🇧London—LeadJava.NETAzure
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer - PricingTem · 🇬🇧United Kingdom£115KRemoteLeadPythonMachine LearningCI/CD
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - ML PlatformTem · 🇬🇧United Kingdom£115K - £127KRemoteLeadMachine LearningAI
- Staff Platform EngineerHyperexponential · 🇬🇧London (hybrid)—Lead
- Staff Engineer (Onboarding Team)Ebury · 🇬🇧London—LeadGoPythonJava
- Staff Chassis Engineer, Steering and Braking ActuationZoox · 🇬🇧Banbury, UK£111K - £153KLeadJiraAgileComputer Vision
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data PlatformEvervault · 🇬🇧London—LeadMachine LearningKafkaDatabricks
- Staff Software Engineer - SecurityFlowengineering · 🇬🇧London£160K - £230KLeadPythonTypeScriptNode.js
- Staff Backend Engineer - Content PlatformSpotify · 🇬🇧London—LeadGoJavaKotlin
- Principal Software Engineer, GPSScale AI · 🇬🇧London, UK—LeadPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Staff Solutions EngineerKong · 🇬🇧England, United Kingdom—LeadPostgreSQLDockerLinux
- Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇬🇧United Kingdom—LeadJavaElasticsearch
- Embedded Automotive Platforms, Staff Software EngineerWayve · 🇬🇧London, United Kingdom—LeadC++Linux
- Senior Staff Engineer - AgenticTem · 🇬🇧United Kingdom£118KRemoteLeadCI/CDRAG
- Principal Software ArchitectIonQ · 🇬🇧Oxford, England, United Kingdom—LeadRust
- Staff Software Engineer, Multi-Product ExperienceFundingcircle · 🇬🇧London—LeadPythonJavaRuby
- Principal DevOps Engineer - AzureCapco · 🇬🇧UK - London—LeadAzureSnowflakeCI/CD
- Staff Software Engineer, New ProductsAirwallex · 🇬🇧UK - London£96K - £178KLeadLLM
- Principal Engineer - PlatformNeko Health · 🇬🇧London—LeadAzure
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA)Docker · 🇬🇧England€121K - €198KRemoteLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Analytics EngineerPleo · 🇬🇧United Kingdom—RemoteLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (London, Hybrid)Dualentry · 🇬🇧London, UK (Hybrid)£130K - £220KLeadPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Staff Software Engineer, Event Streaming SystemsDeliveroo · 🇬🇧London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo—LeadGoPythonJava
- Senior/Staff AI Application Engineer - Heterogeneous ComputingAxelera · 🇬🇧Hybrid/Remote - Europe (incl. UK)—RemoteLeadPythonC++PyTorch
- Staff Engineer, EU InfrastructureWolt · 🇬🇧London, England—LeadGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Engineer - Platform & ToolingAtominvest · 🇬🇧London—RemoteLeadTypeScriptReactNode.js
- Staff Software Engineer, Delivery EngineeringCircleCI · 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸Remote, Canada (EST) OR Remote, US (EST) OR Remote, UKCA$195K - CA$265KRemoteLeadGoCI/CD
- Contract Staff Software Engineer - (Firefox) C++,Storage EncryptionMozilla · 🇬🇧Remote UK—RemoteLeadC++
- Principal Technical Marketing Engineer | UK | RemoteGrafana Labs · 🇬🇧United Kingdom (Remote)£104K - £125KRemoteLeadPrometheus
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Fraud Prevention)Perplexity · 🇬🇧London—RustGoC++
- Principal Product Security EngineerChainguard · 🇬🇧United Kingdom - Remote—RemoteLeadGoPythonSnowflake
- Staff Software Engineer, Tools & SystemsMozilla · 🇬🇧Remote UK£81K - £108KRemoteLeadRustPythonTypeScript
- Staff Supplier Quality EngineerIonQ · 🇬🇧Oxford, England, United Kingdom—LeadPower BINetSuite
- Staff Engineer - TelematicsSamsara · 🇬🇧London - UK2; Remote - UK—RemoteLead
- Staff Security Engineer - Blue Team (UK)Olo · 🇬🇧United Kingdom, Remote—RemoteLeadLinuxKubernetesAWS
- Staff SoC ArchitectGraphcore · 🇬🇧Bristol, UK—Lead
- Staff Software EngineerPleo · 🇬🇧London—LeadTypeScriptNode.jsJava
- Staff Engineer, Test Integration, Modelling and Simulation (R5601)Shield AI · 🇬🇧London, UK—LeadPythonC++Docker
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Questions about Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK
- How many Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK are open right now?
- There are 262 open Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK at 105 companies on Hiring Right Now as of Nov 14, 2026. 17 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK?
- Right now the most openings are at Graphcore (17), Wayve (9), Preply (9), DataCamp (9) and Tem (8). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK?
- 62 of the 262 open Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK (24%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- How do I apply for Staff and principal engineer jobs in London & the UK?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Hiring Right Now needs no account and charges nothing for applying.

























