Software Engineer jobs in Manchester

About the role:

Our residential proxy network powers web scraping, automation and agentic AI companies worldwide. We support thousands of customers across 195+ countries and process 25+ billion proxy requests every month, with 252% year-on-year growth in platform sign-ups. We’ve grown to seven figures in ARR without a sales team. Now we want to go much faster.

You will build the platform that Byteful runs on, and your job is to make the rest of the team (and our agents) fast. We want to ship at rocket ship speed with confidence in every change, and that only works if the infrastructure underneath is reliable, observable and safe to change. This is an internal facing role. Your customers are the engineers on our team, and you succeed when they can move quickly without worrying about the platform.​

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop CI pipelines such that every engineer is empowered to take their code from development to production
• Build the observability and alerting pipelines to find problems before customers do and give the team confidence in what they ship
• Run our Kubernetes cluster in production, owning the full management from upgrades to provisioning
• Manage our fleet of bare metal nodes and cloud instances across multiple cloud providers and datacenters
• Build and operate the internal tools the team relies on every day
• Lead and maintain SOC 2 compliance for our infrastructure, from access reviews and change management to the evidence that backs them up, without slowing anyone down
• Integrate agentic workflows and infrastructure to support agent-led software development
• Willingness and availability to support on-call hours

The measure of this role is simple. How fast can the team ship, and how confident are they when they do.​

Requirements, must have:

• You have 1-5 years of experience running production infrastructure
• You have designed and scaled distributed systems, and have opinions about what breaks first
• You are proficient with Kubernetes and have run it in production, not just deployed to it
• You have experience with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
• You have strong networking and Linux fundamentals
• You can take a problem from idea to implementation to monitoring, and write it down so the team can operate it without you
• You are comfortable with the ambiguity of an early stage company and can pick what matters without being told

​Requirements, nice to have:

• Proficient with Go and Python
• Experience procuring IP subnets, whether through an RIR, a broker or a lease, and an understanding of the BGP announcements that follow
• Experience using AI tools as part of how you work
• Familiarity with any of our stack: Ansible, ArgoCD, Kafka, Dragonfly, Postgres, Grafana, Tailscale, Scaleway, DigitalOcean

​Working arrangement:

• We are a small in person team in Manchester. You will be in the office with us
• Salary negotiable based on your fit and experience
• We offer a company wide bonus scheme
• We are bootstrapped and profitable. There is no runway clock, but there is also no one to hand problems to
• You will own real outcomes. You make the decisions about the platform and you live with the results
• We move quickly. We prefer judgement over process and leverage over coordination

Pay: £36,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Manchester, Greater Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Please send us your LinkedIn Profile

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person