Principal Platform Engineer — Internal Dev Platform & AI

rowdentech; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rowden in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build the Internal Developer Platform used by our engineering teams. You will own the platform, architecting tooling, infrastructure, and workflows to ensure fast, reliable development environments.

You will lead the rollout of agentic AI, embedding it into CI/CD and day-to-day development, with a focus on security, efficiency, and transparency.

Qualifications

• Architect and own the Internal Developer Platform for Rowden's engineering teams.
• Lead the implementation of agentic AI and CI/CD integration.
• Define tooling, infrastructure, workflows, and platform components.
• Advocate for secure, efficient, transparent AI tooling.
• Collaborate with a wide engineering organisation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the Internal Developer Platform for Rowden's engineering teams.
• Lead the implementation of agentic AI and CI/CD integration.
• Define tooling, infrastructure, workflows, and platform components.
• Advocate for secure, efficient, transparent AI tooling.
• Collaborate with a wide engineering organisation.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

CI/CD

Agentic AI

Platform tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Rowden in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build the Internal Developer Platform used by our engineering teams. You will own the platform, architecting tooling, infrastructure, and workflows to ensure fast, reliable development environments.

You will lead the rollout of agentic AI, embedding it into CI/CD and day-to-day development, with a focus on security, efficiency, and transparency.