Principal Platform Engineer - AI-Powered Dev Platform

Rowden Technologies Ltd.; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Rowden Technologies Ltd. is building the UK's next generation engineering powerhouse. We seek a Principal Software Engineer to own the Internal Developer Platform and champion agentic AI within CI/CD and engineering workflows.

You will architect tooling, infrastructure, and environments, guiding adoption across Rowden's software teams while maintaining strong security and observability. Eligible for SC clearance is part of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience as a principal or staff software engineer with platform ownership.
• Proven ability to design and ship internal tooling used across engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience implementing agentic AI in real workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the Internal Developer Platform for Rowden's engineering teams.
• Design and manage software infrastructure, CI/CD, and environments end-to-end.
• Lead the rollout of agentic AI across developer workflows with strong guardrails.
• Drive adoption with product-like decisions and grab-for-use tooling.
• Ensure security, observability, sandboxing, and auditability of tooling.
• Create reproducible development environments across local, cloud, and target hosts.

Skills

Principal Engineer

Developer Platform

Agentic AI

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Platform Adoption

Security & Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Git

Job description

Rowden Technologies Ltd. is building the UK's next generation engineering powerhouse. We seek a Principal Software Engineer to own the Internal Developer Platform and champion agentic AI within CI/CD and engineering workflows.

You will architect tooling, infrastructure, and environments, guiding adoption across Rowden's software teams while maintaining strong security and observability. Eligible for SC clearance is part of the role.